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
Production
company
V/M Productions
Release dates
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]

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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