The Lawless
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 22, 2012
- Originally Released: 1950
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Macdonald Carey, Lalo Rios, Gail Russell, John Hoyt, Johnny Sands & Lee Patrick | |
Performer: | Tab Hunter | |
Directed by | Joseph Losey | |
Edited by | Howard A. Smith | |
Screenwriting by | Daniel Mainwaring | |
Composition by | M. A. Merrick | |
Art Direction by | Lewis Creber | |
Produced by | William H. Pine & William C. Thomas | |
Director of Photography: | J. Roy Hunt |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 81
The nexus between race, class and the media is fairly complex, and is of course still pertinent to what's happening in American politics...
Sight and Sound
Occasional sluggishness and an all-too-casual romance fail to outweigh the many virtues of this stark, suspenseful drama.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: B- --
A realistic B-film liberal melodrama about the discrimination of Mexican-American farm workers in California.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B+ --
This early, socially-conscious film by Joseph Losey, before he was blacklisted, deals with racial discrimination in a powerful way.
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Product Description:
THE LAWLESS was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant workers who are subjected to all sorts of abuse and intolerance by their California bosses. A violent clash between whites and Latinos at a dance results in a torrent of bigotry. Seemingly the only Californian willing to champion the workers' cause is crusading newspaperman Larry Wilder, and soon he too is the victim of senseless mob violence. The story boils to a manhunt for a fugitive fruit-picker who has been accused of fomenting the aforementioned riot. Director Losey, producers William Pine and William Thomas and screenwriter Geoffrey Homes (aka Daniel Mainwaring) are to be commended for tackling a controversial issue in an honest, no-nonsense fashion; even so, the film ends in standard Hollywood-liberal fashion with a white man coming to the rescue.
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- Sales Rank: 42,243
- UPC: 887090039307
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