Chato's Land (1972)

Directed by

Michael Winner

Genre

Western film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 165 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A half-Native man kills a sheriff in self-defense and is hunted by a posse of ex-Confederates. They attack his wife and use her as bait, so he picks them off one by one using his tracking skills.

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What happens

Chato's Land is a 1972 Western Technicolor film directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jack Palance. In Apache country, the half-native Chato shoots the local sheriff in self-defense, and finds himself hunted by a posse of ex-Confederates, who rape his wife and leave her hogtied in the open as a bait to trap him. After freeing her, Chato uses his superior fieldcraft skills to lure each of the posse to their deaths. The film can be classified in the revisionist Western genre, which was at its height at the time, with a dramatizing of racism and oblique referencing of the Vietnam War. The original screenplay was written by Gerry Wilson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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