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Lawman

Year:

1971

Duration:

99 min

Genres:

Western

IMDB rate:

Director:

Michael Winner

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1971-08-04

Filming Locations: Mexico

Earnings

Gross: SEK 530,187 (Sweden) Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Madeleine Taylor Holmes

Richard Jordan

Lawman

Burt Lancaster

Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox

Robert Ryan

Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan Cotten

Lee J. Cobb

Vincent Bronson

Robert Duvall

Vernon Adams

Sheree North

Laura Shelby

Albert Salmi

Harvey Stenbaugh

John McGiver

Sabbath Mayor Sam Bolden

Ralph Waite

Jack Dekker

John Beck

Jason Bronson

William Watson

Choctaw Lee

Walter Brooke

Luther Harris

Robert Emhardt

Hersham

Charles Tyner

Minister

J.D. Cannon

Hurd Price

Lou Frizzell

Cobden

Richard Bull

Dusaine

John Hillerman

Totts

Roy Engel

Bartender

Jan Burrell

Hugh McDermott

L.G. Moss

Joyce Perry

Joseph Wiseman

Lucas

Wilford Brimley

Marc Corman

Tina Carter

(uncredited)

Jacqueline Evans

Saloon Girl

Conrad Hool

Razor

Lance Hool

Lon

Laila Novak

Saloon Girl

Did you know?

Trivia

According to the hotel ledger, Maddox checks in on Friday, May 13, 1887.

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Debut of Richard Jordan.

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Richard Jordan also stared with Burt Lancaster in the western "Valdez is Coming" which also came out in 71.

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Goofs

During the opening scene when Bronson's rowdies tear up the town of Bannock, in two views of the local hotel, the town's name is spelled Bannock. Later, when Sheriff Maddox checks into the hotel in Sabbath, he signs in as a resident of Bannach.

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One of the characters uses the word "gunsel", a word generally acknowledged to have been coined by Dashiell Hammett in 1929.

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When Vernon Adams (Robert Duvall) first aims down on Maddox (Burt Lancaster) with his rifle from above, Maddox is riding away from him up a long draw. Immediately afterward, Maddox is still traveling up the draw and looks up and sees Vernon in front of him and above him aiming down at him. The positions switched 180 degrees.

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Quotes

Vincent Bronson, Town Boss: It took guns to get the land, guns to keep it, guns to make things grow. The guns that pride called out... and each time we buried the cost.

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Vincent Bronson, Town Boss: Fine people, the Commanches. Don't ever listen to anyone who talks down an Indian.

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Lucas: You and I sit at the same table, Jared. The virtuous need us, but they can't stand the smell.

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Faq

Why does Maddox kill Hurd Price

Until the end Maddox always clings to his principle of never drawing first. His face assumes a sad expression - each time a gunfight is forced upon him. The only time his faces looks vengeful is when he shoots Price in the back. Why is that? Until the end Maddox does not know, what kind of man his rival is. Probably assuming his rival to be someone "better" than him. Only in the end he realizes that the woman of his dreams has left him in favor of a coward. This seems to hurt his feelings so much, that he breaks his rules. Being a deeply emotional man (as is implied by his making music before), he takes revenge by "making her a widow". After the killing he rides intentionally close past by her, demonstrating that she is now invisible for him. His harsh action may seem injustified, but one should remember that he has been villified throughout his life - and now the only girl he ever wanted has sided with the mob.It could also be construed, that the killing demonstrates Maddox' true nature of an evil murderer, but this is not very likely as it would negate the entire previous plot.

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