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

  1. ↑ Minton, Kevin, "Sex, Lies, and Disney Tape: Walt’s Fallen Star", Filmfax Issue 38, April 1993 p 71


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