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| | Amazon.ca: The Law and Jake Wade: Video: John Sturges,Robert Taylor,Richard Widmark,Patricia Owens,Robert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | Richard Widmark and Robert Taylor are compelling as former partners now on opposite sides of the law. |
 | | The film is still terrific entertainment, particularly in its second half, with the tensions within bad guy Richard Widmark's crew threatening violence; a fierce Indian raid, with the best-ever use of arrows in a Western, seeming to swoop down from a great distance at the viewer; and the long, mythical shoot-out. |
 | | The film's characters and themes develop predictably - Taylor, who wants to rejoin civilisation by working as a lawman and marrying the daughter of a rich capitalist, must exorcise his violent, blood-stained past - and there are the usual homoerotic and Oedipal complications. |
| www.amazon.ca /Law-Jake-Wade-John-Sturges/dp/6302604931 (850 words) |
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