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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! |
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Scimitar
Films; United Artists
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