![]() When Chiles dies of wounds, Roedel escorts Shelley to a refuge, residence of the pro-Confederate Brown family. ![]() The men manage to hide out in a coarsely-built shelter on the property of a pro-Confederacy family, the Evanses.Ī young widow in the household, Sue Lee Shelley (singer Jewell in screen debut), becomes romantically involved with Chiles. The Bushwhackers battle Jayhawkers using guerrilla warfare tactics while trying to evade their capture. They later meet George Clyde and former slave Daniel Holt, whose freedom Clyde had previously granted. ![]() The two then join the First Missouri Irregulars (aka the Bushwhackers, informal groups loyal to pro-Confederacy in 1861. During a mayhem, Chiles’ father is murdered by Kansas pro-Union Jayhawkers. Jake Roedel (eternally boyish Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) are friends in Missouri when the American Civil War breaks out. Ang Lee directed Ride With the Devil, a sprawling Civil War crime-gangster-western, scripted by James Schmaus, based on the book Woe to Live On, by Daniel Woodrell.ĭealing with a subject rarely portrayed in such detail by mainstream movies–the escalating guerrilla warfare in Missouri at the onset of the American Civil War– Ride with the Devil qualifies as an honorable failure, an ambitious feature that suffers badly from various problems, including the miscasting of the leads.
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