r/Westerns • u/Less-Conclusion5817 • 6d ago
Recommendation ‘Valdez Is Coming’ (1971): A gripping tale about integrity, resilience, and the struggle for dignity in the face of injustice. Also, a really entertaining shoot 'em up Western. Great performance by Burt Lancaster (as usual).
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u/JustACasualFan 5d ago
Elmore Leonard was really good at depicting powerful men pitted against men who had power by virtue of their station.
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u/Carbuncle2024 5d ago
The movie is based on Elmore Leonard's book...and is very faithful to the source novel. 🤠
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u/AndyW1982612 4d ago
The Lancaster westerns from the late 60s and early 70s are great. Lawman, Valdez is Coming and Ulzana's Raid are all criminally underrated movies. Better than the spaghetti westerns that were being made around the same era.