When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? is a 1979 American drama film on DVD, directed by Milton Katselas.
Teddy (preacher-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner in a star making performance), a long-suffering Vietnam veteran turned drug-dealer is a man of action with a past to prove it. Travelling through New Mexico, he holds the unsuspecting customers of a roadside diner at gunpoint and resorts to all manner of physical, mental and emotional torture to make himself known.
Joined by hippie girlfriend Cheryl (Oscar® nominee Candy Clark, American Graffiti), Teddy is on a violent rampage to manipulate everyone around him, stealing their secrets, stripping their souls to make the world pay for its many mistakes and to never, ever forget the power of his almighty wrath.
Written by Mark Medoff, also starring Oscar® winner Lee Grant (Shampoo), Hal Linden (Barney Miller), Peter Firth (Equus) and Pat Hingle (Sudden Impact), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? is a visceral, in-your-face cult exploitation classic in the tradition of The Incident and Rolling Thunder.