Ride Clear of Diablo

Prior to 1954, Jesse Hibbs had directed just a single movie: a football drama starring Tony Curtis, to which Hibbs was no doubt assigned because of his past playing football at USC. Clearly Universal liked what they saw, though, because Hibbs quadrupled his output the…

sakana1

Collabin' w/ Stephen! His Review here. My friend Sakana writes in reference to Murphy's O'Mara and Duryea's Kincaid, "Westerns have rarely seen a more perfectly matched yin and yang." Honestly, my review could end there but it still wouldn't suffice for the simple poetry…

Ziglet_mir

These Audie Murphy films from the early to mid 1950's always have the war veteran fighting injustice or being wrongly accused of something he didn't do. 1954's Ride Clear of Diablo has Murphy on fine form here, but he's arguably upstaged by Dan Duryea as a notorious…

Andy Summers 🤠

dan duryea's laugh is angelic and demonic at the same time, a sound so pleasurable that it has the capacity to drive you mad with infectious glee. getting him and audie murphy together is pure joy because they're both completely different types of actors, one overplaying…

comrade_yui

Railroad surveyor Clay O'Mara returns to the family ranch after learning that his father and brother were murdered in cold blood by a gang of cattle rustlers. The trail leads him to the town of Diablo and notorious outlaw Whitey Kincaid, which O'Mara is determined to bring…

panos75

When handled right, as he is here, Audie Murphy may be the most electrifying screen presence in cinema. A seething, haunted cauldron of violence and lost innocence, he is forever uncomfortable in his own skin and incapable of registering a false emotion.

Jerry

Damn I love this movie. Truly one of my favorite westerns. Audie Murphy and Dan Duryea are a great duo. Duryea (in one of his best roles as Whitey Kincade) literally laughs his way through the movie and nails it. Supporting cast includes, Susan Cabot, Russell Johnson, Jack…

Brian Saur

A series-b Western like many others, which like many others deals with a personal revenge, but which has a particular that makes it unique: Dan Dureya. His figure as an alternative villain has all the requisites to be pathetic and excessively silly but is instead painted…

daniwiller87

As I’ve said, Damn I love this movie. Truly one of my favorite westerns. Audie Murphy and Dan Duryea are a great duo. Duryea (in one of his best roles as Whitey Kincade) literally laughs his way through the movie and nails it. Supporting cast includes, Susan Cabot, Russell…

Brian Saur