Lawman (1971)

The Bible decrees that vengeance is God’s alone, but the guys who wrote the Bible had not yet met Marshal Jered Maddox as relentlessly portrayed by granite-chinned Burt Lancaster in Lawman (1971). A peacekeeper in the Wild West, Maddox believes that the law has no better enforcement than a bullet through the heart. When a group of carousing cowboys brings about the death of an old man through drunken misadventure, there is no refuge or reason that will keep them from the cold, avenging rage of steely justice. Maddox plies a form of law and logic that works with all the subtlety of a bear trap.