Jesse Hibbs was for Audie Murphy at Universal Studios what Joseph Pevney was for Jeff Chandler. Both directors used their fetish actors in all kinds of films, except science fiction; all kinds: boxing, dramas, westerns.... This one is above the average though, because of Dan Duryea's presence and the big surprise is that he doesn't play the villain here, not the Audie Murphy's nemesis, I mean. A very ambivalent and interesting character indeed. Not a masterpiece, but a good western. I preferred the relation between Glenn Ford and Chad Everett in THE LAST CHALLENGE than the one between Murphy and Duryea, in more or less the same kind of relation between the lead and his "pal", "sidekick".... But both interesting however. I insist.
Review of Ride Clear of Diablo
