Ride with the Devil (1999) on Netflix
In Missouri, Jack Bull Chiles and Jake Roedel are friends when the Civil War breaks out. Jayhawkers burn the Chiles plantation and kill Jack's father, so the two join the Bushwhackers.
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Plot summary
Jack Bull Chiles' family owns a plantation near Lexington, Missouri, and Jack and Jake Roedel are friends there when the Civil War begins. Jake's father, an immigrant from Germany, warns his son that other Southerners distrust foreigners. Jayhawkers burn the plantation and kill Jack's father, but Jack gets away with Jake. A year later the two belong to the First Missouri Irregulars, a guerrilla band loyal to Missouri's Confederate government, raiding Unionist Jayhawkers with the help of Southern households. Their comrades include George Clyde, Daniel Holt, a Black man, and Pitt Mackeson, who resents Jake's education. The men spend the winter in a dugout on the Evans farm, where Sue Lee Shelley Evans, a widow, brings them food and becomes close to Jack.
Cast
- Jeremy W. Aumanas Guard
- Scott Seneras Guard (as Scott C. Sener)
- Glenn Q. Pierceas Minister
- Kathleen Warfelas Mrs. Chiles
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- Zan McLeodas Wedding Musician - Guitar
- John Whelanas Wedding Musician - Accordion
- Roger Landesas Wedding Musician - Mandolin
- Jeffrey Doveras Wedding Musician - Drummer
- Tyler Johnsonas Wedding Musician - Drummer
- Kelly Wertsas Wedding Musician - Fiddle
- Michael W. Nashas Horton Lee, Sr.
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ride with the Devil (1999)
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- The leading actors were put through three weeks of boot camp to prepare them for their roles. Maguire hesitated under the grueling heat and the 16-hour workdays of the shoot, but pressed on and completed the filming.
- The actors first trained with blank loads and then with live ammunition for the conflict scenes, more than 250 Civil War black-powder pistols were used, and over 200 Civil War re-enactors joined the 140 extras who played the residents of Lawrence.
- To turn modern roads back into the 1860s, the set design team removed telephone poles and used truckloads of dirt to cover existing asphalt and concrete, while production designer Mark Friedberg created numerous indoor and outdoor sets of the period.
