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List Price: $4.94Price: $2.28 You Save: $2.66 (54%)
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
Fabric Type: 9780792838531
Graphics Memory Size: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 079283853X
Maximum Color Depth: MGM (Video & DVD)
Metal Type: MGM (Video & DVD)
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: MGM (Video & DVD)
Total Parallel Ports: September 01, 1998
Total S Video Out Ports: 95 minutes
MGM (Video & DVD)
August 04, 1971
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Burt Lancaster is excellent as the title character, a pitiless, unbending marshal out to arrest seven cowhands who left a dead man in the wake of a drunken tear, in this stoic, modern take on a classic Western theme. He confronts a rancher baron, trigger-happy gunmen, and the cowardly hypocrites of a frontier town: the usual bunch of Old West types sculpted into intriguing character by a crack cast. Robert Ryan brings a sad dignity to his former gunfighter tamed into a meek town marshal, and Lee J. Cobb is introspective and thoughtful as the aging cattleman weary of his life of violence: "It took guns to take this land, guns to keep it, and guns to make it grow.... Each time we bury the cost." Robert Duvall, Albert Salmi, and a young Richard Jordan (as an idealistic cowpoke whose sense of honor gets a workout in the complex conflicts) also star.
The first American feature by British director Michael Winner (who went on to make numerous tough Charles Bronson pictures, including the first three Death Wish movies) is lean and tough, with a streak of "passing of an era" melancholia, but surprisingly old-fashioned. The hard-edged, unsentimental violence, arid, austere look of the picture, and distracting overuse of zoom shots mark it as an unmistakable product of the early 1970s, but it's not so much cynical as sorrowful in its clash of ideals, and never less than clear-eyed in the presentation of harsh frontier realities. --Sean Axmaker
Average Rating: 
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The movie was unbelievable for two reasons:
There actually were few gunfights in the Old West.
Nobody but Burt could shoot straight.
Should have called it Low Noon.
Rating:  -
Why Oh Why- When we pay good=hard to get money for a great film like LAWMAN do we get a cut & butchered copy w/ many minutes missing-this is dim & we all are being RIPPED Big Time by the powers that be!!! Still a great movie & I did order it= but it is not the same film that I saw years ago at a cinema in my hometown of Glendale Ca,I'm really disappointed about the scene w/Burt & miss North in bed- the film I saw then showed her good looking breasts,but the DVD I received from AMAZON has those covered ... Read More
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This is a great movie, it's as if Andy and Barney Fife have switched roles with deadly results. The Barney-like character played by Ryan sees the big picture and is pragmatic and compromising. He's wants peace and quiet in the town even if it means overlooking the letter of the law sometimes. But he is weak.
Lancaster is the strong one, but with no concern for peace and quiet. He's myopically focused on executing the letter of the law without any regard for the surrounding circumstances. ... Read More
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These oldies were really packed with action for those days so you can't really compare to Rambo,DieHard,Bourne Ultimatum et al, but they're still fun to watch.
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A wonderful, thinking man's, neo-traditional Western. Burt excels as the lawdog made of granite. He doesn't bend, he doesn't trade. He wavers for a brief moment, but the inexorable workings of the patterns of his life pull him back into line. The flickers that pass over his tired face are a masterful demonstration of cinema acting. Beautiful, intricate script to chew on. It's stuffed with strong dialogue, full of meat. Superb, relentless pacing. Stunning shoot-outs. Like a game of chess, there are rules. ... Read More
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