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Release Date: 1971

Cast: Robert Duvall, Burt Lancaster, Richard Jordan, Joseph Wiseman, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Ryan, J. D. Cannon, Ralph Waite

Categories: Movies, Western, Action/Adventure, Revisionist Western, Action

Lawman is a 1971 American Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, and Robert Duvall. The film is about the quest of a lone peace officer, Marshal Jered Maddox (played by Lancaster), to bring several men to justice. It was written by Gerry Wilson and directed by Michael Winner. Its hero and the motives of the other characters are not as defined or clear-cut as in some westerns. Cobb's character, Vincent Bronson, is not a typically evil cattle baron but is portrayed with a sense of humanity. The marshal and the guilty men nevertheless come to a series of deadly... MORE

Lawman is a 1971 American Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, and Robert Duvall. The film is about the quest of a lone peace officer, Marshal Jered Maddox (played by Lancaster), to bring several men to justice. It was written by Gerry Wilson and directed by Michael Winner. Its hero and the motives of the other characters are not as defined or clear-cut as in some westerns. Cobb's character, Vincent Bronson, is not a typically evil cattle baron but is portrayed with a sense of humanity. The marshal and the guilty men nevertheless come to a series of deadly confrontations. Maddox can be seen as an anti-hero dedicated to upholding the law regardless of any extraneous code of honor, or any personal happiness. The plot generates questions regarding honor and under what circumstances murder becomes legal. The film starts with a scene common to many Westerns, cowboys in a drunken state shooting up a town and wreaking havoc. The rowdies are from the town of Sabbath and are visiting the town of Bannock for a little recreation that gets out of hand. The town's marshal, Jered Maddox, rides into Sabbath and is not alone. He brings along the body of Marc Corman, one LESS