Ride a Crooked Trail – western movie starring – Audie Murphy and Walter Matthau. Color.
After unsuccessfully trying to rob a bank Joe Maybe assumes the identity of his pursuer a famous US Marshal when the marshal stumbles and falls off a cliff. Maybe rides into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal. An old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy’s wife. The “couple” given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau’s ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy.
Audie Murphy as Joe Maybe
Gia Scala as Tessa Milotte
Walter Matthau as Judge Kyle
Henry Silva as Sam Teeler
Joanna Cook Moore as Little Brandy (as Joanna Moore)
Eddie Little as Jimmy
Mary Field as Mrs. Curtis
Leo Gordon as Sam Mason
Mort Mills as Pecos
Frank Chase as Ben
Bill Walker as Jackson
Ned Wever as Attorney Clark
Richard H. Cutting as Mr. Curtis
Bob Steele as a bearded man being questioned by Judge Kyle (uncredited)
Morgan Woodward as Durgan, Teeler thug (uncredited)
