This movie was written and co-produced by Jack Nicholson. The story is a bit lacking in content and character development, and at times a tad boring.
"Ride in the Whirlwind" is an interesting western for several reasons. It was written by Jack Nicholson.
Written and starring Jack Nicholson! beautiful scenery of Utah and Arizona.
Outstanding western. In my book, it's the best of Hellman's films, maybe because the 80- minutes has a distinctive story and little of Hellman's later intellectual posturing.
After setting up a reasonably interesting storyline, two men who got away from a posse ambush rode and hid and walked to get out of being hung, and the final scene was Jack riding away with no conclusion to the story. I suppose the producers ran out of money and couldn't finish the movie.
Ride in the Whirlwind is directed by Monte Hellman and written by Jack Nicholson. It stars Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins and Dean Stanton.
"Ride in the Whirlwind" is a good, engaging Western, which maverick low budget filmmaker Monte Hellman shot back to back with the critical favourite "The Shooting". It's more straightforward and thus a shade less interesting than that film, but it's still agreeable entertainment, and it even has some poignant and philosophical moments going for it.
This is not Jack Nicholson, the brilliant actor from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." He wrote a very boring script and just offered himself the lead role, surrounded by very weak actors, except Harry Dean Stanton.
Cameron Mitchell and Jack Nicholson star in Ride In The Whirlwind as a pair of cowboys who among others like Rupert Crosse and Harry Dean Stanton get some shelter and hospitality from some outlaws. Not knowing these are outlaws fresh from a job Nicholson and Mitchell get caught up in a gun battle with a posse that's in no mood to either listen or take live captives.
