Chato's Land (1972)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.3/10   

Réalisateur:

Michael Winner

Scénariste:

Gerald Wilson (written by)

Release Date:

30 juin 1972 (Denmark)

Genre:

Western

Accroche:

The scream of his victims is the only sound he makes.

Plot:

After Pardon Chato, a mestizo, killed a US marshal in self-defense, a posse pursues him, but as the...

Plot Keywords:

Posse | Rape | Beans | Corncob Pipe | Vulture

Avis des utilisateurs:

One of My Favorite Bronson Flicks

Ensemble

Charles Bronson	...	Pardon Chato
Jack Palance	...	Capt. Quincey Whitmore
James Whitmore	...	Joshua Everette
Simon Oakland	...	Jubal Hooker
Ralph Waite	...	Elias Hooker
Richard Jordan	...	Earl Hooker
Victor French	...	Martin Hall
Sonia Rangan	...	Chato's woman
William Watson	...	Harvey Lansing
Roddy McMillan	...	Gavin Malechie
Paul Young	...	Brady Logan
Raúl Castro	...	Mexican scout (as Raul Castro)
Lee Patterson	...	George Dunn
Roland Brand
Peter Dyneley	...	Ezra Meade

Autre(s) titre(s):

Les collines de la terreur (France) [fr]

Durée:

110 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Singapore:PG | West Germany:16 (f) | New Zealand:R16 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1972) | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | UK:18 (cut)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Scimitar Films

Anecdotes:

This is the first film out of six that Charles Bronson and Michael Winner made together.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Several times as the posse rides through the desert, the saguaro cacti props in the background can be seen jiggling and flapping their arms in the wind.

Guillemet:

Gavin Malechie: Maybe he isn't a killing man.
Jubal Hooker: He's half Apache, isn't he? You mix a dog and a wolf, you wind up with a killing animal.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Embalmer (1996)

One of My Favorite Bronson Flicks

A tale of western revenge, "Chato's Land" has a cast of many well known actors including Jack Palance, Richard Basehart, Simon Oakland, Ralph Waite, Victor French and James Whitmore as well as Bronson in the lead role as Pardon Chato.

Chato is a half-breed Apache who makes the mistake of visiting a town that is hostile towards Indians. Being set upon by the sadistic town Marshall, Chato kills the lawman in self defense and must run from a posse of the town's people led by Jack Palance as Quincy Whitmore. Palance is excellent as Whitmore, an ex-Confederate officer who still longs after the excitement that comes from waging war. Leading the town's men in pursuit of Chato, Whitmore is decked out in his Confederate officer's jacket and plummed hat. Along with Whitmore is Nye Buell (Basehart) dressed in top hat and frock coat offering his whiskey laden salty commentary along the way. Simon Oakland also does a fine job as Jubal Hooker, the vicious elder of the degenerate Hooker clan who takes control of the posse from Quincy and ultimately cause the death of several of the posse members.

This movie has some beautifully set scenery that captures the harshness of the desert land that Chato takes refuge in. Whitmore comments that the harsh land is something that a white man would just damn off to hell and forget, but to Chato who doesn't ask much or take much from the land, it is almost a living thing.