El Diablo (1990)
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger and a no-nonsense cowboy to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo.
- Date of release
- 1990-07-22
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (34)
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Western, Comedy, TV Movie
- Director
- Peter Markle
Casting
- Anthony Edwards — Billy Ray Smith
- Louis Gossett Jr. — Van Leek
- John Glover — The Preacher
- Joe Pantoliano — Kid Durango
- Robert Beltran — El Diablo
- M.C. Gainey — Bebe
- Miguel Sandoval — Zamudio
- Sarah Trigger — Nettie Tuleen
- Branscombe Richmond — Dancing Bear
- Jim Beaver — Spivey Irick
- Geno Silva — Chak Mol
- David Dunard — Pitchfork Napier
Interesting facts
El Diablo is a 1990 American Western comedy television film directed by Peter Markle. It stars Anthony Edwards and Louis Gossett Jr. The film was co-written by Tommy Lee Wallace, John Carpenter and Bill Phillips, and produced by Carpenter and Debra Hill.
Production
According to a 1980 issue of Cinefantastique magazine, it was originally intended for co-writer John Carpenter to direct El Diablo himself in 1980 as his next film after completing The Fog. That same year, writer and producer Debra Hill discussed the movie in an interview with the Courier Post, saying: "My Western is called El Diablo and I see it as being in the Howard Hawks vein, a combination of The Searchers and Journey to the Center of the Ea…
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