| Chato's Land | |
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| Directed by | Michael Winner |
| Screenplay by | Gerald Wilson |
| Produced by | Michael Winner |
| Starring | Charles Bronson Jack Palance Richard Basehart James Whitmore Simon Oakland |
| Cinematography | Robert Paynter |
| Edited by | Michael Winner |
| Music by | Jerry Fielding |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Chato's Land is a 1972 Western Technicolor film directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jack Palance.
In Apache country, the half-native Chato shoots the local sheriff in self-defense, and finds himself hunted by a posse of ex-Confederates, who rape his wife and leave her hogtied in the open as a bait to trap him. After freeing her, Chato uses his superior fieldcraft skills to lure each of the posse to their deaths.
The film can be classified in the revisionist Western genre, which was at its height at the time, with a dramatizing of racism and oblique referencing of the Vietnam War. The original screenplay was written by Gerry Wilson.