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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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The Hunting Party (1971)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.