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The Law and Jake Wade

The girl is a captive hostage at the mercy of the West's most notorious bandit-killer.

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Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.

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Status
Released
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Language
English
  • outlaw
  • loot
  • ghost town

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Director

John Sturges

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR6 Jun 1958
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU21 Jul 1958
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical22 Jul 1958

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The Law and Jake Wade was released on 6 June 1958.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    5/20/2017

    8/10

    More than meets the eye in John Sturges' excellent Oater. Jake Wade, a former thief and gunman is now the town marshal. Out of a need to clear a debt, he breaks a former accomplice of his, Clint Hollister, out of jail, and almost immediately starts to regret it. It seems that Wade hid some monetary spoils out in the hills and Hollister wants his hands on it. So along with his gang, Hollister forces Wade and his fi…

  • W

    Wuchak

    10/8/2021

    7/10

    _**"This town's not big enough for the both of us" (literally)**_ Released in 1958, "The Law and Jake Wade" stars Robert Taylor as the title character who was an outlaw after the Civil War, but is now a sheriff out West. A member of his former gang, Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark), won't let him start a new life and forces Jake and his fiancé (Patricia Owens) to lead him and a few other ne'er-do-wells to some bu…

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