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Ride Clear of Diablo

"No one with a badge ever rides back from Diablo!"

A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.

Top Cast

  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy

    Clay O'Mara

  • Susan Cabot

    Susan Cabot

    Laurie Kenyon

  • Dan Duryea

    Dan Duryea

    Whitey Kincade

  • Abbe Lane

    Abbe Lane

    Kate

  • Russell Johnson

    Russell Johnson

    Jed Ringer

  • Paul Birch

    Paul Birch

    Fred Kenyon

  • William Pullen

    William Pullen

    Tom Meredith

  • Jack Elam

    Jack Elam

    Tim Lowerie

  • Denver Pyle

    Denver Pyle

    Reverend Moorehead

Overview

A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.

Rating

6.1 / 10
33 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • John Chard
    John Chard
    7 Sep 30, 2019

    Maybe you're getting soft, Whitey. Maybe you're turning into a human being. Ride Clear of Diablo is directed by Jesse Hibbs and adapted to screenplay by George Zuckerman from a story by Ellis Marcus. It stars Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Susan Cabot, Abbe Lane and Russell Johnson. Irving Glassberg is the cinematographer with location filming in Technicolor at Lone Pine and Victorville in California. Plot sees Murphy as Clay O'Mara, a railroad surveyor forced to return to his home town after rustlers kill his father and brother. Getting the sheriff to make him a tin star wearing deputy, Murphy sets about finding out who was responsible for the murders. His first port of call is a meeting with notorious gunslinger Whitey Kincaid (Duryea)... Lively and utterly enjoyable "B" Western in the cannon of Audie Murphy. Standard revenge formula of plotting is elevated to better heights by the central relationship between Murphy's honest do gooder and Duryea's rough and tumble bad dude. Director Hibbs smoothly directs and the story has one or two surprises to off set the expected lack of credibility in the story. Glassberg's photography is beautiful and there's good support to the leads from Jack Elam and Denver Pyle. The girls look sexy and are costumed in style, while the action sequences, notably a horse pursuit featuring a gorgeous white stallion, are good value for money. Everything, though, is in Duryea's shadow, stealing the movie, Duryea is having a great time as the cackling villain forming an uneasy friendship with Murphy. It's this coupling, and the turn of events in the finale, that most will fondly remember the film for. Real solid stuff. 7/10

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