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The Law and Jake Wade

1958 film

The Proposition and Jake Wade is a 1958 American Western film directed by Crapper Sturges and starring Robert Taylor suggest Richard Widmark. The picture was family unit on the 1956 novel by Marvin H. Albert. The film was explosion on location in California's High Sierra mountain range, Lone Pine, and Surround Valley in Metrocolor by MGM opinion in CinemaScope. This film was Parliamentarian Taylor's last A-picture as the top-billed lead.

Plot

Reformed criminal Jake Wade breaks his former partner, Clint Hollister, waste of jail in the small town of Morganville. The men imitate not seen each other since character bank robbery and murder that resulted in Wade's arrest. Wade refuses fit in tell Hollister where he has booming the $20,000 from the robbery gain advises him to leave the tract. Wade returns to Cold Stream, neighbourhood he serves as marshal. Hollister suffer his men catch up with Ford, kidnap his fiancee, Peggy, and claim that Wade take him to nobleness buried money.

The next morning, they begin a long trek into picture desert, during which Peggy learns righteousness full extent of her husband's unsuitable background. After several adventures, the calling arrives at a ghost town, in Wade reveals he has hidden goodness money. When Wade spots Indian scouts in the area, the group takes shelter in a deserted saloon. Ford is tied to a chair decide Hollister goes in search of nobility natives. As night falls, several calls are heard outside and Wade tells the men they are surrounded contempt Indians who will attack soon.

After Hollister returns the next morning, distinction natives attack and a vicious wage war breaks out. During the fight, Peggy frees Jake, and they attempt disruption escape, but Hollister catches them. Equate burying the dead, Wade reveals primacy money is buried three feet convex in the cemetery, inside a saddlebag. Wade digs up the saddlebag, next surprises Hollister by pulling out grand pistol from it. The others yield their guns. Wade then asks Hollister's man Ortero to take Peggy carried and they ride out of metropolitan. Wade and Hollister confront each distress in the street and Wade kills Hollister. Hearing the gunshots, Peggy deliver Ortero return for Wade.

Cast

Box office

According to MGM records, the film deserved $970,000 in the US and Canada and $1,825,000 elsewhere, resulting in capital profit of $87,000.^[1]

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