discount gucci sunglasses Ride Clear of Diablo - S

dobso258dp

Co-Star Dan Duryea: A Memorable Villain
Ride Clear of Diablo: The Plot
Dan Duryea co-stars as Whitey Kinkade, the villain, who’s not all bad. In his 27-year career, he appeared in approximately 110 movie and television roles. Though most often in secondary roles, he occasionally played the lead. Audiences today may recall Duryea’s many western roles, but he acted in virtually all film genres, including film noirs.
The outfit that Audie wears, simple by early 1950’s leading man standards, consists of a white long-sleeved shirt with gray pants. Fans of his work will notice that he wore this outfit, or a similar one, in a number of his later 1960s westerns.
Duryea’s Whitey Kinkade is sadistic in nature, always provoking Audie and gleefully cackling whenever something amuses him, always at the other characters’ expense. Audie is initially sent to arrest him in the town of Diablo, yet Duryea eventually comes to respect Audie’s tenacity, going so far as to save his life on more than one occasion. Any scenes featuring Murphy and Duryea are not to be missed.
Read on
Audie Murphy's To Hell & Back: His Defining Role
New Postage Stamps Honor Cowboys of the Silver Screen
Lillian Gish Biography
The movie opens with cattle rustlers murdering Audie’s father and younger brother. Portraying a railroad surveyor named Clay O’Mara, Audie is away at the time of the killing. He is called into town by the executor of his father’s estate, only to discover that the executor and town sheriff may have something to hide.
Some of Duryea’s best roles occurred in the James Stewart films Winchester ’73 (1950) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). Two television shows that are syndicated regularly each year are “Mr. Denton on Doomsday,” a 1959 Twilight Zone episode, and “Badge Without Honor” (1960) and “Logan’s Treasure” (1964), two Bonanza episodes he appeared in.
Murphy does not reveal any great acting ability in the film, yet he brings a certain authenticity to his role. Rarely showing excitement [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Audie portrayed the cool, calm, and reserved cowboy to the hilt. Most importantly, Audie realized his acting limitations, and the writer, George Zuckerman [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], created a screenplay that played to Audie’s strengths.
He always looked excellent whenever action scenes were required. In Ride Clear of Diablo, many are to be found, including the great chase sequence when Audie returns a stallion to his rightful owner, and Audie jumping on the executor’s horse, literally fighting in the saddle.
The scenes where Audie demonstrates his fast draw are also entertaining. In fact, it is documented that Audie had one of the fastest draws in Hollywood. Considering his military heroics, that is not surprising in the least.
The beautiful raven-haired Susan Cabot, in her last of three films with Audie, has several good scenes as Audie’s leading lady. Another one of Universal
The Female Leads, Featuring Susan Cabot
Ably directed by Jesse Hibbs, who also helmed Audie’s popular 1955 film To Hell And Back, (please click here to read a discussion of that film), Ride Clear of Diablo moves along at a fast clip in its tight 81 minute running time.
Audie Murphy: The Actor
Released in March 1954 by Universal International, Ride Clear of Diablo was Audie Murphy’s 13th film and 11th starring role. Universal had quickly determined that Audie was best suited in westerns, and Ride Clear of Diablo, his 10th of 34 westerns [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is a definitive Audie Murphy western.