The Law and Jake Wade

1958
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1h 26m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

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Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, and Patricia Owens in The Law and Jake Wade (1958)

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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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.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.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.

Director
- John Sturges
Writers
- William Bowers
- Marvin H. Albert
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

2.8K

YOUR RATING

Director
- John Sturges
Writers
- William Bowers
- Marvin H. Albert
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Wexler
(as De Forest Kelley)

Burt Douglas

Lieutenant

Eddie Firestone

Burke

Fred Coby

Deputy
(uncredited)

Gene Coogan

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Richard H. Cutting

Luke
(uncredited)

Roy Engel

Avery
(uncredited)

Al Ferguson

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Rory Mallinson

Deputy
(uncredited)

Reginald Simpson

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Dean Smith

Soldier
(uncredited)

Henry Wills

Cavalry Sergeant
(uncredited)

Director
- John Sturges
Writers
- William Bowers
- Marvin H. Albert
All cast & crew
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Trivia
The film was shot on location in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, Lone Pine and Death Valley.

Goofs
When Marshall Wade comes into town near the start of the movie leading an extra horse, he throws that horse's rein up against a rail and it drops right off. As he steps down from his horse, the other horse's rein is now tightly wound around the rail.

Quotes
Peggy Carter: Your father was a preacher?
Rennie: Kind of a phony evangelist. I tell ya, he was about the meanest man I've ever met in my life. He just naturally liked to beat up on anything that was smaller than him. And of course, he could always say he was beating the fear of God into ya.
Peggy Carter: Well, where is he now?
Rennie: Well, I, ah, well I hope I know where he is. He was the first man I ever killed.

Connections
Referenced in A Majority of One (1961)

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Featured review

7/10

Good standard western, but with no outstanding merits...

In his second Western of 1958, after "Saddle the Wind," Taylor again is a reformed outlaw who has deserted Widmark's gang, taking along the proceed from a bank robbery...

Taylor becomes a highly respected marshal of a small New Mexico town... He discovers that his old gang leader Widmark faces hanging nearly on a murder charge...

Since Taylor owes his companion an ancient favor, he decides to help him escape from jail, but lives to regret it...

Widmark kidnaps Taylor and his sweetheart Patricia Owens and he and his four confederates (Robert Middleton; Henry Silva; DeForest Kelley and Burt Douglas) force them across the Sierras to a deserted ghost town where Taylor has hidden a buried loot...

Taylor and Owens attempt to escape but Widmark drives them into the town to recover the money... The Comanches were there on their backs... A well-staged Indian raid follows plus the final showdown..

With good shots of the High Sierras and Death Valley, "Law and Jake Wade" is a good standard Western filled with irony dialog and sardonic humor, enjoyable throughout, but with no outstanding merits...