''Ride a Violent Mile'' is a 1957 American

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film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and written by Eric Norden. The film stars

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, Penny Edwards, John Pickard, Bing Russell, Richard Shannon and

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. The film was released on November 24, 1957, by

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Plot

A stranger in town, Jeff Donner, intervenes when dancehall girl Susan Crowley is accosted by two men. He then discovers a man's mortally wounded body, listens to his last words, then is arrested for murder by Thorne, the new marshal. Susan helps him get away and confides to Donner that she is actually a Union Army undercover operative. She says the dead man was to deliver a coded message to her, but was killed while she was being roughed up by the two cowboys. Donner repeats what the man said, which Susan is to pass along to a Cavalry officer. A man named Norman murders the officer and pretends to be him, then takes Susan captive. Donner, discovering that the man's coded message involves a Confederate plot to rustle cattle and seize advantageous land, confronts Thorne, who's in league with the rebels. He is successful and rescues Susan as well.

Cast

as Jeff Donner * Penny Edwards as Susan Crowley * John Pickard as Marshal James Thorne * Bing Russell as Corporal Norman * Richard Shannon as Sam *

as Dory * Sheb Wooley as Jonathan Long *Rush Williams as Edwards *Richard Gilden as Francisco Gomez *

Rocky Shahan Rocky Shahan (March 4, 1919 – December 8, 1981) was an American actor and stuntman. He was a regular cast member of '' Rawhide''. In 1957, he had a rare integral & speaking part as Dodge’s stagecoach driver “Hank” in the ending of an epi ...

as Outlaw

Production

The film was produced by Charles Marquess Warren's Emirau Productions. Filming started in June 1957.

References

External links

* 1957 films 20th Century Fox films American Western (genre) films 1957 Western (genre) films Films directed by Charles Marquis Warren Films scored by Raoul Kraushaar 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{1950s-Western-film-stub