The Lawless

1950, 1h 23min -

The second of five films leftist director Joseph Losey made in Hollywood before being blacklisted, this socially conscious noir traces simmering racial tensions between white farmers and Mexican migrant workers as they threaten to boil over into violence in a small California town. When a young Latino man (Lalo Ríos) is wrongly accused of assaulting a white woman, an idealistic newspaper editor (Macdonald Carey) becomes his sole public defender—and soon finds himself and his paper at the center of a public firestorm.

"The Lawless" — movie produced in USA and released in 1950. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.6 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 23min. "The Lawless" is currently available to stream on Amazon Store. Click on a playlink to watch it now!