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Ride in the Whirlwind is a 1966 American Western film edited and directed by Monte Hellman and starring Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, and Harry Dean Stanton. Nicholson also wrote and co-produced the film with Hellman.
Ride in the Whirlwind: Directed by Monte Hellman. With Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Katherine Squire. Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.
- (4.5K)
- Drama, Western
- Monte Hellman
- 1968-09-11
Apr 21, 2021 · In our February 1993 issue the young director Quentin Tarantino, hot off the success of his debut Reservoir Dogs, wrote this reflection on great westerns and particularly Monte Hellman’s Ride in the Whirlwind, with its mix of innocence and desperation.
'Ride in the Whirlwind', for that matter, is not just a western movie but a political and social tale. Good performance by Cameron Mitchell. A young Jack Nicholson, with a distant but correct performance,seems to be comfortable in a western adventure, a genre that he never tries today.
Feb 1, 2020 · As a Western, The Shooting, written by Carole Eastman, is female-led, abstract, uncompromising and hallucinogenic. Ride in the Whirlwind, on the other hand, is defiantly realistic; more conventional and plot-driven. It was also written, produced and acted in by Jack Nicholson.
Pursued by an angry posse of vigilantes for crimes they didn't commit, the despairing fugitives seek refuge in the unforgiving deserts of Utah; however, as the unrelenting hanging squad is closing in on them, all hope seems lost. Can Wes and his friends ride to freedom? —Nick Riganas
Ride in the Whirlwind. Working from a thoughtful script by Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman fashioned this moody and tense western about a trio of cowhands who are mistaken for robbers and must outrun and hide from a posse of bloodthirsty vigilantes in the wilds of Utah.
