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The "Hanging Judge" had come to the moment of decision!
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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Dec 19, 2021 · via TMDB
_**An A.C. Lyles town-bound Western that culminates with a court sequence**_ A judge rides into a Kansas town (Dale Robertson) to arbitrate a murder trial involving the son of the formidable mogul (John Agar and Barton MacLane). Yvonne De Carlo plays a saloon girl, Lon Chaney Jr. a friend of the accused and Bruce Cabot a hired gun. “Law of the Lawless” (1964) is an A.C. Lyles Western, who produced over a dozen ‘second-feature’ Westerns in the mid-60s, which all featured former A-list actors and were shot in 10-14 days. The teams Lyles gathered together for his productions always knew what they were doing and did it competently and efficiently. As such, there’s little artistic merit to this Western, but it effectively gets the job done if you’re in the mode for traditional town-bound Western. De Carlo was certainly a beauty and this was her last film before focusing on The Munsters for the next few years. The movie runs 1 hour, 27 minutes, and was shot at Iverson Ranch & Paramount Studios, Los Angeles. GRADE: B-/C+
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Dale Robertson
Judge Clem Rogers
Yvonne De Carlo
Ellie Irish
William Bendix
Sheriff Ed Tanner
Bruce Cabot
Joe Rile
Barton MacLane
Big Tom Stone
John Agar
Pete Stone
Richard Arlen
Ben the Bartender
Jody McCrea
George Stapleton
Kent Taylor
Attorney Rand McDonald
Lon Chaney Jr.
Tiny
Bill Williams
Silas Miller
Rod Lauren
Deputy Tim Ludlow
George Chandler
Martin
Don 'Red' Barry
Red
Romo Vincent
Doc Samuels
Roy Jenson
Roy Johnson
Joseph Forte
Banker
Leigh Chapman
Saloon Girl Leigh
Regis Parton
Ned Johnson
Philo McCullough
Townsman (uncredited)
Bernard Sell
Townsman (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Townsman (uncredited)
Ray Spiker
Townsman (uncredited)
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Wally Westmore
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William F. Claxton
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A.C. Lyles
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