Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) on Netflix
Vern, Wes and Otis stop for the night at a hideout an outlaw gang is using, each group wary of the other. At dawn a vigilante hanging party surrounds them all.
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Plot summary
Blind Dick and his gang hold up a stagecoach, killing the guard and robbing the passengers. Three cowboys, Vern, Wes and Otis, reach the outlaws' remote camp and settle down for the night, not knowing who is there. The two groups of men eye each other with suspicion. In the morning a vigilante hanging party surrounds the place and a shootout starts, the posse firing on the shed where the outlaws have been sleeping. Vern and Wes get away on horseback with the posse in pursuit, hunted now as gang members and blamed for a robbery they had no part in.
Cast
- Tom Fileras Otis
- B. J. Merholzas Edgar
- Peter Cannonas Hagerman
- Brandon Carrollas Quint Mapes
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
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- Monte Hellman said Roger Corman agreed at a lunch at the old Brown Derby restaurant to put up funds for a Hellman-directed Western, then decided Hellman should make two, since that would let them make two films for less than the usual cost.
- Ride in the Whirlwind was shot in Utah, including Kanab Canyon and Glen Canyon, in an area since filled in with an artificial lake; Monte Hellman said he was the last to film there, and that producers would sometimes hire him to find out his locations and then fire him.
- Ride in the Whirlwind and The Shooting were each made for under US$75,000, about $150,000 for the two, provided by Roger Corman, and Monte Hellman and Jack Nicholson agreed to pay any budget overage out of their own pockets.
- The two films were hits in France in 1969, with The Shooting playing a year in Paris and Ride in the Whirlwind six months, and Hellman said being lionized in France gave him a brief time of being very much in demand in Hollywood.
