Ride the Hot Wind

Ride the Hot Wind (1971)

Captain Shank is an outcast officer and gets dishonorably discharged. He tries to get back on his feet, but his reputation keeps following him around ruining everything. When he meets some bikers he gets caught up in a life he tries desperately to escape.

Date of release
1971-06-15
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Drama, Action
Director
Duke Kelly

Casting

Interesting facts

Ride the Hot Wind is a 1971 film. It was made by Ted Kelly who was a good friend of Audie Murphy.

Production

Tommy Kirk starred and later recalled about the movie:

This was his [Kelly's] attempt to do a sympathetic dramatisation of a Lieutenant Calley-type character (Mỹ Lai massacre) coming home and portraying his bitterness, alienation and unhappiness at being fingered as a murderer, a baby killer and a monster. That's who I played. I'm not completely embarrassed by the film, but after I saw it, I wished they would have cut some things. Some of it was pretty stinko. Other things weren't so bad.

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