Ride the Hot Wind
| Ride the Hot Wind | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Duke Kelly |
| Written by | Duke Kelly Rand Porter Robert Linder |
| Starring | Tommy Kirk Duke Kelly Cheryl Waters Sherry Bain |
Production company | V/M Productions |
Release date | 1971 |
| Country | United States |
Ride the Hot Wind is a 1971 film. It was made by Ted Kelly who was a good friend of Audie Murphy.
Plot
Captain Gregory Shank (Tommy Kirk) is a Vietnam vet that hooks up with bikers.
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 (My 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. The movie as a whole was a failure, but it wasn't trash.[1]
- In 1975, Kirk, Kelly, and several others of those involved in Ride The Hot Wind made My Name Is Legend.
See also
References
- ^ Minton, Kevin, "Sex, Lies, and Disney Tape: Walt’s Fallen Star", Filmfax Issue 38, April 1993 p 71
External links
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