Ride with the Devil

Film Info

United States
1999
148 minutes
Color
2.35:1
English
Spine #514

With this new director’s cut, Ang Lee reconstructs his original vision for Ride with the Devil, a harrowing, unorthodox Civil War epic. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, the film follows Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich), who join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack Bull’s father is killed by abolitionist Jayhawkers, and find an unusual ally in Holt (Jeffrey Wright), who’s fighting for the South despite being a former slave. A rumination on identity and loyalty, both political and personal, Ride with the Devil is a provocative challenge to preconceptions about America’s bloodiest conflict.

Cast

Daniel Holt	Jeffrey Wright
Jake Roedell	Tobey Maguire
Jack Bull Chiles	Skeet Ulrich
George Clyde	Simon Baker
Pitt Mackesen	Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Black John	James Caviezel
Sue Lee Shelley	Jewel
Riley Crawford	Tom Guiry
Orton Brown	Tom Wilkinson

Credits

Director	Ang Lee
Screenplay	James Schamus
Based on the novel Woe to Live On by	Daniel Woodrell
Producer	James Schamus
Editor	Tim Squyres
Music	Mychael Danna
Director of photography	Frederick Elmes
Production designer	Mark Friedberg
Costume designer	Marit Allen
Casting	Avy Kaufman

Disc Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer of Ang Lee’s director’s cut, supervised and approved by Lee and director of photography Frederick Elmes (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Two audio commentaries, one featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus, and one featuring Elmes, sound designer Drew Kunin, and production designer Mark Friedberg
New video interview with star Jeffrey Wright
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Godfrey Cheshire and Edward E. Leslie, author of The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders