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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Movie Review <font size="4"><br>Ride With the Devil</font> <br>by Gary Johnson</font> <P><font size="6" color="#FFFFFF"><b>D</b></font>irector Ang Lee has built a career on finely-detailed dramas (e.g., <i>The Ice Storm</i> and <i>Sense and Sensibility</i>) that focus on the private lives of their main characters. In the past, his movies have featured little action. Most battles were fought in drawing rooms and bedrooms. So at first glance, Lee seems an odd choice to film a movie, <i>Ride With the Devil</i>, about one of the most notorious incidents of the entire Civil War--the Lawrence, Kansas massacre. On an August day in 1863, William Quantrill led a group of almost 350 bushwhackers on an early morning assault. The guerrillas pillaged and burned much of the town--and killed more than 180 men and boys. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>