Ride with the Devil
Ride with the Devil is a 1999 American revisionist Western film directed by Ang Lee and starring Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jewel in her feature film debut, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Caviezel, Thomas Guiry and Jonathan Brandis. Based on the novel Woe to Live On, by Daniel Woodrell, the film, set during the American Civil War, follows a group of men who join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers—guerrilla units loyal to pro-Confederacy units of the state—and their war against Northern Jayhawkers allied with the Union army.
Plot
Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Lexington, Missouri when the Civil War breaks out (April 1861). Chiles' family are wealthy planters, and Jake's father, a German immigrant, warns him of anti-German suspicion from other Southerners. Jayhawkers set fire to the Chiles' plantation and execute Jack's father, but Jack escapes with Jake.
More details
| author | James Schamus |
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| contentLocation | Missouri |
| director | Ang Lee |
| editor | Tim Squyres |
| events | slavery in the United States |
| genre | drama historical western |
| keywords | 5th kansas cavalry regiment american civil war amputate amputation anti-german suspicion baby bloodshed bought him his freedom california capture chicory civil war confederate government of missouri former slave freedman gangrene german americans in the american civil war guard guerrilla warfare hunt injured jayhawkers kentucky kill lawrence kansas manumission missouri in the american civil war new family on the run outlaw pressed into marrying rid shotgun wedding strike survive texas turn union army union troops william quantrill wound |
| musicBy | Mychael Danna |
| producer | Robert F. Colesberry Ted Hope |
| productionCompany | Good Machine |
| publisher | Focus Features |
| recordedAt | Kansas |
| theme | epic northern race and ethnicity war |