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Ride a Crooked Trail

Alone . . . he faced the deadly crossfire of a killer mob . . . and a fear-crazed town!

6.5(26)19581h 28m2

After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy

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Language
English
  • marshal
  • deception
  • riverboat
  • sheriff's badge
  • fried egg

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Director

Jesse Hibbs

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR23 Nov 1958

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Ride a Crooked Trail was released on 23 November 1958.

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    John Chard

    5/30/2014

    6.5/10

    Middle of the Street. Ride a Crooked Trail is directed by Jesse Hibbs and adapted to screenplay by Borden Chase from a story written by George Bruce. It stars Audie Murphy, Walter Matthau, Gia Scala, Leo Gordon, Henry Silva and Eddie Little. A CinemaScope/Eastman Color production, music is by Joseph Gershenson and cinematography by Harold Lipstein. A blend of the breezy and the beefy here as Audie saddles up as…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    9/4/2023

    6/10

    This is quite a good, light-hearted little western featuring Audie Murphy as an escaping bank robber who arrives in a town only to be mistaken by the local judge - a feisty Walter Matthau - for a likely candidate for sheriff. When Gia Scala - Murphy's old flame gets off the river boat she almost lands him it, so to avoid discovery he claims that they are married so as he can carry out his own nefarious plans. When he…

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