A LAWLESS STREET (1955) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Joseph H. Lewis
Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson,
Jean Parker, Michael Pate, Wallace Ford, James Bell,
John Emery, Don Megowan, Ruth Donnelly
A square-jawed U.S. marshall and his six-gun are all that stand between the town of Medicine Bend and the crooks who want to take it over, so the crooks hire a gun of their own to take out the marshall, which he does. Luck would seem to favor the crooks at that point, except for two things: The marshall's not really dead, and he's played by Randolph Scott. It's not one of Scott's great westerns - most of those were directed by Budd Boetticher - but Angela Lansbury turns up in it, playing a musical-hall entertainer and Scott's estranged wife. Randolph Scott and Angela Lansbury - that's a combination you don't see every day.
Angela Lansbury
(1925-2022)
