Lawless

Editor's Note THE LAWLESS was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant workers who are subjected to all sorts of abuse and intolerance by their California bosses. A violent clash between whites and Latinos at a dance results in a torrent of bigotry. Seemingly the only Californian willing to champion the workers' cause is crusading newspaperman Larry Wilder, and soon he too is the victim of senseless mob violence. The story boils to a manhunt for a fugitive fruit-picker who has been accused of fomenting the aforementioned riot. Director Losey, producers William Pine and William Thomas and screenwriter Geoffrey Homes (aka Daniel Mainwaring) are to be commended for tackling a controversial issue in an honest, no-nonsense fashion; even so, the film ends in standard Hollywood-liberal fashion with a white man coming to the rescue.

	Macdonald Carey
	John Hoyt
	Lalo Rios
	Gail Russell
	Johnny Sands
	Lee Patrick
	Walter Reed - Co-Star
	Noel Reyburn - Co-Star
	Felipe Turich - Co-Star
	Robert B. Williams - Co-Star
	Gloria Winters - Co-Star
	Frank Fenton - Co-Star
	Tab Hunter - Co-Star
	Howard Negley - Co-Star
	John Davis - Co-Star
	John Murphy - Co-Star
	Martha Hyer - Co-Star
	Ray Hyke - Co-Star
	Maurice Jara - Co-Star
	Ian MacDonald - Co-Star
	Gordon Nelson - Co-Star
	Russ Conway - Co-Star
	Pedro de Cordoba - Co-Star
	William Edmunds - Co-Star
	Julia Faye - Co-Star
	Frank Ferguson - Co-Star
	Paul Harvey - Co-Star
	David Chudnow - Music Director
	Daniel Mainwaring - Screenwriter
	J. Roy Hunt - Director of Photography
	M. A. Merrick - Composer
	Herbert Anderson - Co-Star
	Argentina Brunetti - Co-Star
	James Bush - Co-Star
	Joseph Losey - Director