Ride Clear of Diablo
Ride Clear of Diablo is a 1954 Technicolor Western. It is the first collaboration between Audie Murphy and Jesse Hibbs, and the last film Susan Cabot made for UniversalInternational. She and Murphy had appeared in two films together previously.
Surviving son Clay Audie Murphy, a railroad surveyor in Denver, is informed of their deaths and comes back to his home where the identity of the murderers is unknown. Clay is talked out of revenge by the town Reverend Denver Pyle but Clay makes his own enquiries to the sheriff and Tom. When Clay asks the sheriff if he can become his deputy in order to make an investigation, the sheriff at first refuses. Tom advises the sheriff that it would be a good idea with Clay sent on a false trail to arrest notorious gunslinger Whitey Kinkaid Dan Duryea in the town of Diablo. Kinkaid has no connection with the murders, but the corrupt pair plan that Kinkaid will kill the pesky Clay. Ringer Russell Johnson.To everyones surprise Clay outdraws Kinkaid, arrests him, thwarts Kinkaids escape attempts and successfully fights off an ambush from three men. Kinkaid, who spends his life by hanging and idling about, is bemused by the unstoppable Clay and watches him go after the real killers at first he does this for amusement, but gradually he realizes that the moral attitude of the much younger Clay is like a valuable lesson in living a worthwhile life. It is amusing to see how he accepts him finally as an exemplar. Kinkaids identification goes so far as to sacrifice himself to save the younger heros life in several gunfights, all in accordance with the fact, that he said that if ever he feels hes become like a human being, he will shoot meaning here, sacrifice himself. ........
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