Lawless Street (1955)
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36% of users liked it
(1,009 ratings)
It would be nice to say that hiring Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, The Big Combo) to direct A Lawless Street led to its becoming a classic Randolph Scott Western. Can't do it. At this point in his career, Randy was cutting corners as star-producer, scoping out his next oil well, and not worrying… More It would be nice to say that hiring Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, The Big Combo) to direct A Lawless Street led to its becoming a classic Randolph Scott Western. Can't do it. At this point in his career, Randy was cutting corners as star-producer, scoping out his next oil well, and not worrying that a blind grandma could see he was being doubled in the fight scenes. Scott plays a town marshal who's had enough of "taming the beast," just when greedy men are conspiring to destroy him. One of them (Warner Anderson) is also a rival for Scott's onetime music-hall flame (Angela Lansbury). Director Lewis is stuck in a back-lot Western town with a juiceless cast (apart from Jeanette Nolan's frontier widow and Michael Pate's gloved assassin), but his rigorous eye keeps framing scenes as if they had some classical urgency. Every once in a while, through the fierce purity of his style, they do. --Richard T. Jameson
- Directed By
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Genres
- Western, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 15, 1955 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television
Western with wonderful storytelling, delightful camera movement.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Randolph Scott was born to play this kind of cowboy role.
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