Lawman Details

Michael Winner is a man who obviously loves the movies, and as a producer is capable of assembling major players in promising material. As a director, however, he's no great shakes, and invariably sabotages his own films by doing his own editing and by relying too much on the zoom lens. This is an authentic-looking, tough western — filmed on location in Durango, Mexico with a distinguished cast and a fine screenplay by Englishman Gerald Wilson — that is totally destroyed by inept timing and a clumsy, ugly visual style. No real director of westerns would have star Burt Lancaster wear that silly hat throughout the movie.

Typically ham-fisted Western from Death Wish Winner. Stoic lawman Lancaster arrives in the town of Sabbath on the trail... read more on Time Out