The Ride Back

The Ride Back is a 1957 American Western film directed by Allen H. Miner and written by Antony Ellis. The film stars Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan and Jorge Trevino and was produced by Conrad. It was released on April 29, 1957, by United Artists. It was partially filmed in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California.

It was produced by Robert Aldrich who called it "a good Western with psychological overtones."

Synopsis

Lawman Chris Hamish is recruited to bring gunfighter Bob Kallen back for trial on unspecified charges. Hamish is a brooding haunted man who has been a failure at everything he has done and even his own wife scorns him. Kallen, on the other hand, is very confident, charismatic and decent at heart. This Western was rather novel because it was an intense character study of the two protagonists as they embark on their odyssey. Along the way, Hamish admits to his prisoner that he wants to bring him in not so much in the name of justice, but for his own self redemption. Stalked by blood-thirsty Apaches and picking up an orphaned child whose family was just murdered, the lawman and the outlaw are forced to rely upon each other for survival and in the end develop a bond of admiration and respect.

Cast 	
Anthony Quinn as Bob Kallen
William Conrad as Sheriff Chris Hamish
Lita Milan as Elena
Victor Millan as Father Ignatius
Jorge Treviño as Border Guard 
Ellen Hope Monroe as Little Girl
Joe Dominguez as Luis
Louis Towers as Boy

Production
Aldrich had admired a documentary on tuna fishing directed by Miner.

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Category:1957 films
Category:1950s Western (genre) films
Category:American films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:English-language films
Category:Films scored by Frank De Vol
Category:United Artists films