Law of the Lawless
"The "Hanging Judge" had come to the moment of decision!"
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
"The "Hanging Judge" had come to the moment of decision!"
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
Dale Robertson
Judge Clem Rogers
Yvonne De Carlo
Ellie Irish
William Bendix
Sheriff Ed Tanner
Bruce Cabot
Joe Rile
Barton MacLane
Big Tom Stone
John Agar
Pete Stone
Richard Arlen
Ben the Bartender
Jody McCrea
George Stapleton
Kent Taylor
Attorney Rand McDonald
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
_**An A.C. Lyles town-bound Western that culminates with a court sequence**_ A judge rides into a Kansas town (Dale Robertson) to arbitrate a murder trial involving the son of the formidable mogul (John Agar and Barton MacLane). Yvonne De Carlo plays a saloon girl, Lon Chaney Jr. a friend of the accused and Bruce Cabot a hired gun. “Law of the Lawless” (1964) is an A.C. Lyles Western, who produced over a dozen ‘second-feature’ Westerns in the mid-60s, which all featured former A-list actors and were shot in 10-14 days. The teams Lyles gathered together for his productions always knew what they were doing and did it competently and efficiently. As such, there’s little artistic merit to this Western, but it effectively gets the job done if you’re in the mode for traditional town-bound Western. De Carlo was certainly a beauty and this was her last film before focusing on The Munsters for the next few years. The movie runs 1 hour, 27 minutes, and was shot at Iverson Ranch & Paramount Studios, Los Angeles. GRADE: B-/C+
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