Ride the Man Down

1952
Approved
1h 30m

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Rod Cameron and Ella Raines in Ride the Man Down (1952)

Disputes over a dead man's property escalate into a bloody range war.Disputes over a dead man's property escalate into a bloody range war.Disputes over a dead man's property escalate into a bloody range war.

Director
- Joseph Kane
Writers
- Mary C. McCall Jr.
- Luke Short
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

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YOUR RATING

Director
- Joseph Kane
Writers
- Mary C. McCall Jr.
- Luke Short
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Screenwriter Mary C. McCall Jr. said of this film, "From the outset this was as happy a spell of work as occurs but rarely in a screenwriter's life. [Director Joseph Kane] is an admirer of Luke Short's work. I loved the novel. In transferring the story to the visual medium we didn't have any problems."

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Featured review

7/10

Commendable film with many well-known Western actors

Several offerings of this film are available on YouTube, and I'm surprised that so far there are only two reviews here on IMDB - and these sum up RTMD very well indeed.

The cast includes many well-known and not so-well-known actors from 1950s Westerns, all of whom acquit themselves well.

As has been suggested, there was a lot of plot crammed into 90 minutes, and the number of characters' names was such that I had to concentrate to work out who was who. And there were quite a few localities named.

The fight between Rod Cameron and Forrest Tucker was one of the most impressive I've seen in films of this period, and Ella Raines as Celia Evarts acquitted herself very well against the roughs who invaded her home.

The final shoot-out in the dark seemed short, almost to the point of being anticlimactic.

But overall a good Western.