---
title: 'Ride with the Devil (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ang Lee'
released: '1999-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 138
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Western'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ride-with-the-devil-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134154/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Ride with the Devil (1999)

1999 · 138 min · Drama, Western, War · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ang Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ang-lee)
- **Screenplay:** [James Schamus](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-schamus)
- **Producer:** [James Schamus](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-schamus), [Robert F. Colesberry](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-f-colesberry), [Ted Hope](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-hope)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Mychael Danna](https://cinepixo.com/people/mychael-danna)
- **Director of Photography:** [Frederick Elmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-elmes)
- **Editor:** [Tim Squyres](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-squyres)

## Cast

- [Tobey Maguire](https://cinepixo.com/people/tobey-maguire) as Jake Roedel
- [James Urbaniak](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-urbaniak)
- [John Durbin](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-durbin) as Skaggs
- [Jonathan Brandis](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-brandis) as Cave Wyatt
- [Jim Caviezel](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-caviezel) as Black John Ambrose
- [Tom Guiry](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-guiry) as Riley Crawford
- [Jewel](https://cinepixo.com/people/jewel) as Sue Lee Shelley
- [Zach Grenier](https://cinepixo.com/people/zach-grenier) as Mr. Evans
- [John Ales](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ales) as William Quantrill
- [David Rees Snell](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-rees-snell)
- [Skeet Ulrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/skeet-ulrich) as Jack Bull Chiles
- [Tom Wilkinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-wilkinson) as Orton Brown
- [Mark Ruffalo](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-ruffalo) as Alf Bowden
- [Celia Weston](https://cinepixo.com/people/celia-weston) as Mrs. Clark
- [Margo Martindale](https://cinepixo.com/people/margo-martindale) as Wilma Brown

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