{{Short description|1971 American action film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox film | name = Ride the Hot Wind | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Duke Kelly | producer = | writer = Duke Kelly<br>Rand Porter<br>Robert Linder | starring = Tommy Kirk<br>Duke Kelly<br>Cheryl Waters<br>Robert Ford Grayling<br>Sherry Bain | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = V/M Productions | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1971}} | runtime = | country = United States | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Ride the Hot Wind''''' is a 1971 film. It was made by Ted Kelly who was a good friend of Audie Murphy.
In 1975, Kirk, Kelly, and several others of those involved in ''Ride The Hot Wind'' made ''My Name Is Legend''.<ref name="vagg">{{cite magazine|magazine=Diabolique Magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=The Cinema of Tommy Kirk|url=https://diaboliquemagazine.com/the-cinema-of-tommy-kirk/|date=9 September 2019}}</ref>
==Plot== Captain Gregory Shank is a Vietnam veteran who has been imprisoned by the U.S. Army for being responsible for a massacre during the war. After he's released he tries to star fresh but employers fire him after they find out his past, he gets in brawls and he struggles to maintain a relationship. He falls in with some bikers. They go on a crime spree and the police assume Gregory is the ringleader.
==Cast== *Tommy Kirk as Gregory Shank *Duke Kelly *Cheryl Waters *Sherry Bain *Richard Ford Grayling *Jared Snyder
==Production== Tommy Kirk starred and later recalled about the movie: <blockquote>This was his [Kelly's] attempt to do a sympathetic dramatisation of a Lieutenant Calley-type character (Mỹ 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.<ref>Minton, Kevin, "Sex, Lies, and Disney Tape: Walt's Fallen Star", ''Filmfax'' Issue 38, April 1993 p 71</ref></blockquote>
==See also== * List of American films of 1971
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://letterboxd.com/film/ride-the-hot-wind/ Ride the Hot Wind] at Letterbox DVD *{{IMDb title|id=0362089}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140222021605/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b8aee9e89 ''Ride the Hot Wind''] at BFI
Category:1971 films Category:1971 action films Category:American action films Category:1971 American films
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