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Chato's Land
(1972)
The
scream of his victims is the only sound he makes.
Director: Michael Winner, rated PG
  Starring:
Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland,
Richard Basehart, Ralph Waite, Victor French
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
- good
"All we got here is a
handful of nothing... dirt and dry mouths." -
Joshua Everette
Why watch this?
Bronson's performance as an Apache on the run from a brutal
posse.
Plot Summary:
When a half-Apache man shoots a town sheriff in self-defense, he
flees back into the hills, knowing that he'll be
hung, guilty or not. A posse forms and sets out to find him. This film
is very violent, which adds to its realism. I find the
make-up of the mob very interesting. It's led by an ex-Confederate
Captain, who spends most of his time trying to keep the
sadistic, racist Jubal Hooker
and his two sons in line - these three brutes cause way more
harm than good. Some in the posse members don't agree with
Hooker's methods and the group splinters. This all plays into Chato's
hands.
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Dad's Preview:
Charles Bronson, silent, capable and chiseled out of granite, shines as
Native American one
step ahead of his pursuers. Not too bad for a Polish-American
actor from a poor Pennsylvania mining town. This film leans away
from the white-is-right theme of many old classic Westerns. Instead,
this
Native American possesses the moral high ground, while his white
pursuers are a gang of brutal, morally ambiguous thugs. Jack
Palance gives a great performance as Captain Whitmore,
the gang's leader, who quickly realizes that they have
very little chance against Chato!
You can watch the film free on the
Internet Archive site
HERE. |
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Scimitar
Films; United Artists
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