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The Law and Jake Wade is a 1958 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark. The picture was based on the 1956 novel by Marvin H. Albert. The film was shot on location in California's High Sierra mountain range, Lone Pine, and Death Valley in Metrocolor by MGM and in CinemaScope. This film was ...
The Law and Jake Wade: Directed by John Sturges. With Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens, Robert Middleton. Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.
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- Western
- John Sturges
- 1958-11-22
The Law and Jake Wade (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Bandits Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark) and Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) botch a robbery that ends with Clint imprisoned. Despairing, Jake leaves the loot in an abandoned...
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- Matt Brunson
- Western
- John Sturges
Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) has just broken his former partner, outlaw Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark), out of jail, he awaiting a death sentence, Jake's action in repaying a debt as Clint did the same for Jake after their last crime, a bank robbery over a year ago.
With sinister support from the likes of Henry Silva, Robert Middleton and DeForest Kelley, The Law and Jake Wade intertwines nail biting tension with breathtaking anamorphic photography to create a new kind of adult Western for fifties audiences, one that explores the psychology of the characters while depicting their acts of violence.
Jake Wade, a former thief and gunman is now the town marshal. Out of a need to clear a debt, he breaks a former accomplice of his, Clint Hollister, out of jail, and almost immediately starts to regret it.
