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MPAA Rating - PG13

Length:
    91 Minutes

Genre:
    Western

Original Release Date:
    Sep 4, 2001

Director
    Edwin Sherin

Cast
    Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Barton Heyman, Richard Jordan

 
Movie Summary
Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, Valdez is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in the title role. A scrupulously honest Mexican-American marshal, Bob Valdez is double-crossed and humiliated by wealthy, unscrupulous rancher Jon Cypher. Since Cypher has the law on his side, Valdez is obliged to mete out his own justice. He kidnaps Cyphers mistress Susan Clark to force the ranchers hand. At first, Cypher is able to rally a group of tough hombres against Valdez, but one by one they side with the marshal. Director Edwin Sherin, whod helmed the Broadway production of The Great White Hope, makes several rather anachronistic points regarding the films racial issues; on the other hand, Valdez is Coming is one of the most-authentic looking westerns ever made-right down to the deglamorization of Susan Clark, who in a 1950s film might have looked as though shed just visited a frontier branch of Max Factor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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