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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929005093
Format: DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 5814
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
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Product Description:
Western involving an outlaw who forces his reformed co-hort to lead him to some buried loot.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 883929005093 Manufacturer No: 1000036298
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - a good solid western
Not a classic like "my Darling Clementine" or "High Noon", of course, but this film has a lot to offer. Richard Widmark always made one of the best villains in the movies. He really puts on a show in this film, as the leader of a former Civil War guerilla outfit that just kept on robbing banks after the war ended. Widmark, and the scipt, give the character a borderline psychotic persona, with a 1950's-ish vague hint of homosexuality in his obsession with his former second in command, played by ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Western From One of The All-time Great Directors
John Sturges' name is not spoken nearly enough when the great film directors are being listed. You would think that after directing The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and The Old Man and the Sea that he would be revered and recognized, but that is not the case.
Sturges was at his best making Westerns, and The Law and Jake Wade was a great one. It was the last great movie Robert Taylor made, and one of the best that Richard Widmark ever made.
Taylor plays Jake Wade, ... Read More
Rating:  - Quality western
The Law and Jake Wade is an entertaining western about a reformed outlaw trying to escape his past. Jake Wade, played by Robert Taylor, is trying to go straight only to run into his former gang led by Richard Widmark. A past incident involving hidden money leads Widmark to kidnap Wade and his fiancee. He leads them into the desert where they fight off Comanches as well as themselves.
This is a good movie that most western fans will enjoy. Taylor and Widmark are very good as ex-partners ... Read More
Rating:  - Violence and Regrets
This neglected Western is one of John Sturges best. Richard Widmark and Robert Taylor are compelling as former partners now on opposite sides of the law. There is a lingering sense of regret between the two protagonists that is rare in movies. And for all his villiany, there is something very likable about the Widmark character. This is a character driven Western at its best. Except for the Boetticher and Mann films, there is not much better. Another great Western with this theme that is hard to ... Read More
Rating: - 'Modest' Western worth of all Sturges' bigger famous films.
'The Law And Jake Wade' came out in the same year as Anthony Mann's last Western, 'Man Of The West', with which it shares many narrative, thematic and visual affinities. Both centre on ex-outlaws who have tried to turn away from a life of crime, but who are violently dragged back by companions from the past; the struggle in both is intensified by the presence of a woman as hostage/prize. Both feature aging Hollywood stars at or near the end of thir careers, and both climax in the heavily symbolic arena ... Read More
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