The Lonely Man - BLU-RAY

The past and the future close in on a reformed gunslinger. Like Alan Ladd in SHANE, Gregory Peck in THE GUNFIGHTER and Clint Eastwood in UNFORGIVEN, Jack Palance's Jacob Wade in THE LONELY MAN belongs to that saddlebag full of Westerns about a gunslinger to coming to terms with his infamous past and uncertain future. He's a notorious outlaw trying to ride the trail of respectability. But where Wade goes, his reputation follows. And so d

Director Joseph Kane (King of the Pecos) and his star John Wayne (Flame of Barbary Coast) teamed up again in this western about a veteran Union officer, John Ashley (Wayne) returning home from the war only to find that his presence is unwanted by his former neighbors, who had all sided with the Confederacy. Seedy carpetbagger, Benedict Holden (Cy Kendall) and his army of thugs have taken control of the town and though initially duped by Holden, Ashley realizes that Holden, without the knowledge of the governor is killing, stealing, and taxing the local ranchers out of their property under the pretense of state authority. Ann Rutherford (The Lawless Nineties) co-stars as Virginia Terry, Ashley's childhood sweetheart.

When the rowdiness of a pack of drunken cowhands from the neighboring town caused a constituent his life, Marshal Jared Maddox (Burt Lancaster) rode to confront their boss (Lee J. Cobb) and the sheriff in charge (Robert Ryan) and demand they be turned over. They'd learn all too soon that the determined Maddox wasn't to be assuaged or bought off. Michael Winner's provocative Western drama also stars Robert Duvall, Sheree North, Albert Salmi, Joseph Wiseman. 95 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.