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Writers:
Heck Allen (novel)
Burt Kennedy (writer)
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Release Date:
March 1970 (Austria) more
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Tagline:
Billy better learn fast...or die young!
Plot:
A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman... more | add synopsis
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Who Rides With Wyatt . . . I mean Kane more (8 total)

Cast

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Robert Mitchum ... Deputy Ben Kane

Angie Dickinson ... Lily Beloit
Robert Walker Jr. ... Billy Young (as Robert Walker)

David Carradine ... Jesse Boone
Jack Kelly ... John Behan
John Anderson ... Boone
Paul Fix ... Charlie (stagecoach driver)
Willis Bouchey ... Doc Cushman
Parley Baer ... Bell
Robert Anderson ... Gambler (as Bob Anderson)
Rodolfo Acosta ... Mexican officer
Deana Martin ... Evie
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Runtime:
89 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
John Behan: How would you boys like to pick up a little extra spending money?
Jesse Boone: I figure as long as it ain't legal.
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Who Rides With Wyatt . . . I mean Kane, 24 February 2006
Author: Bilwick1 from United States

Fans of the movie TOMBSTONE and other Wyatt Earp movies may be interested to know that this movie was very loosely based on Will Henry's WHO RIDES WITH Wyatt, a heavily fictionalized novel about Wyatt Earp's war with the Cowboy gang and his feud with Cowboy-sympathizing sheriff John Behan. In the novel, the "Billy Young" character is actually Johnny Ringo, who--in a completely fictional subplot--is at first protected, befriended and mentored by Wyatt (as Billy is by Kane in this movie), until Ringo gets more and more deeply involved with Curly Bill and the Clantons and Wyatt has to come after him. The novel is grim and dark, with an admirable but not very likable Wyatt. The movie is entertaining fluff, with a storyline that has less and less to do with the novel and the real Wyatt Earp as it goes along. Surprisingly, a good bit of the dialogue of the novel is retained, at least in the early scenes with Kane, and the script even retains the Earp-Behan-Lily triangle. The Behan character is even called "John Behan," and gets a surprising comeuppance from a surprising source. David Carradine is his usual watchable self as a more likable version of Ike Clanton.

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