The Lawless (1950)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Release: 1950-06-09
Director: Joseph Losey
Writers: Daniel Mainwaring
Language: English | Spanish
Stars: Macdonald Carey , Gail Russell , Johnny Sands , Lee Patrick , John Hoyt , Lalo Rios , Maurice Jara , Walter Reed , Herbert Anderson , Argentina Brunetti
Runtime: 83 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total
AKA: Gnadenlos gehetzt (Austria) , Fanatismeni koinonia (Greece) , The Lawless (Canada) , The Dividing Line (United States of America) , El forajido (Spain) , The Big Showdown (United States of America) , Intolerância (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Lawless (United States of America) , Voice of Stephen Wilder (United States of America) , Laiton kaupunki (Finland) , Cei fărădelege (Romania) , Den laglösa staden (Sweden) , Outrage (United States of America) , Mimo zákon (Czech Republic) , O Fugitivo de Santa Marta (Brazil) , Linciaggio (Italy) , The Dividing Line (United Kingdom) , The Dividing Line (South Africa) , Den lovløse by (Denmark) , Haines (France, French Republic) , The Lawless , Разделительная линия , Gnadenlos gehetzt , I symmoria ton paranomon tou Mississipi (Greece) , Poza prawem (Poland)
Plot: Former big city newsman Larry Wilder is tired of fighting the powers that be and just wants to enjoy his new life as a small-town newspaper editor. He thinks his bucolic new home will provide him with an easy and unconflicted life. But when a young Latino farmworker is goaded into a fight by racist rich boys, Wilder finds himself the only white citizen of the town willing to stand up for the boy's rights. He joins with Sunny Garcia, a staffer for a small weekly newspaper for the Hispanic workers, in trying to see justice done and possibly to save a life.
IMDB:tt0042669