Charles Bronson
Pardon Chato
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Chato's Land: Directed by Michael Winner. With Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland. In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
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- Michael Winner
- PG
- Drama, Western
Chato's Land is a 1972 Western Technicolor film directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jack Palance. In Apache country, the half-native Chato shoots the local sheriff in self-defense, and finds himself hunted by a posse of ex-Confederates, who rape his wife and leave her hogtied in the open as a bait to trap him.
- Michael Winner
- Gerald Wilson
1972 · 1 hr 41 min. PG. Action · Western. A half-white, half-Apache man dodges a vengeful posse after he kills a sheriff in self-defense. Both sides pay a heavy price in this Western. Subtitles: English. Starring: Richard Basehart Charles Bronson Jack Palance James Whitmore. Directed by: Michael Winner.
- Michael Winner
- January 1, 1972
- 101 min
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Synopsis. While drinking at a bar, in 1870s New Mexico territory, bigoted sheriff Eli Saunders provokes Pardon Chato, a man of mixed white and Apache heritage. Resenting that the "redskin nigger" is being served, Eli pulls a gun on Chato, forcing the quiet man into a draw which results in Saunders' death.
Half-Apache Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) finds himself in a bar fight with a bigoted sheriff and kills the man to save his own life. The locals won't accept this defense, though, and angry...
- Western
Chato's Land. Summaries. In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory. After a deadly confrontation with the racist local sheriff in the town's whites-only bar, the half-Apache, Pardon Chato, flees into the unforgiving desert.
