

The Ride Back
It Rides a Trail NO Western Ever Rode Before!
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
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- Language
- English
- sheriff
- mexico
- failure
- murder
- death
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR28 Apr 1957
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1625 Jul 1958
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The Ride Back was released on 28 April 1957.
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2- J8/10
John Chard
5/28/2017
Whose shoes would you rather be in? The Ride Back is directed by Allen H. Miner and written by Antony Ellis. It stars Anthony Quinn, William Conrad and Lita Milan. Music is by Frank De Vol and cinematography by Joseph Biroc. Sheriff Chris Hamish (Conrad) tries to extradite popular gunfighter Bob Kallen (Quinn) from Mexico to stand trial for murder in Scottsville, Texas. A good and meaty psychological Weste…
- W8/10
Wuchak
4/30/2021
_**A hidden Western Gem**_ "The Ride Back" is a B&W Western from 1957 starring William Conrad (aka "Cannon") as a hard-luck Texas lawman sent to Mexico to bring back a charismatic man wanted for murder, played by Anthony Quinn. Plot-wise, the film is reminiscent of another B&W 1957 Western, "3:10 to Yuma," but "The Ride Back" was released about 4 months prior to "3:10" and was adapted from a "Gunsmoke" radio pr…
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