The Lawless
Leaving June 30
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1h 22m
Directed by Joseph Losey • 1950 • United States
Starring Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, Johnny Sands
The second of five films leftist director Joseph Losey made in Hollywood before being blacklisted, this socially conscious noir traces simmering racial tensions between white farmers and Mexican migrant workers as they threaten to boil over into violence in a small California town. When a young Latino man (Lalo Ríos) is wrongly accused of assaulting a white woman, an idealistic newspaper editor (Macdonald Carey) becomes his sole public defender—and soon finds himself and his paper at the center of a public firestorm.
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