Chato's Land is a 1972 American and Spanish western Technicolor film
directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jack Palance.
It falls more closely into the revisionist Western genre, which was at its height at the time.
The original screenplay was written by Gerry Wilson.
User Review
QuoteDisplay MoreTrue mystic in Bronson's screen presence…
Author: Righty-Sock from Mexico
5 April 2007
"Chato's Land" was well suited to Bronson's evolutionary screen persona, that of the strong, relatively silent avenger—a solid figure of firm intention but few words…
As Pardon Chato, the vengeful Apache half-breed, Bronson enjoyed the most vocally reticent role of his starring career, speaking but few lines—and most of those in Apache!
Again, Spanish locations represented the American frontier West for this post-Civil War tale about a white posse's search for Chato, who, in self-defense, had killed the sheriff of a small New Mexico town… As the pursuers forge deeper into Apache country, the situation shifts around, with hunters becoming the hunted… Failing out among themselves, the posse members gradually become victim either to each other's violence or to Chato's well-justified vengeance, after they rape his woman…
In the non-U.S. countries where Bronson enjoyed his greatest popularity, "Chato's Land" was well met and highly successful…