Young Buffalo sets out on the trail of a criminal sheriff who works recklessly and commits murders and holdups with considerable regularity and no evident fear..

William Addison Lathrop
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Spurs clang like cracked church bells the instant Young Buffalo’s silhouette slices the heat shimmer—an omen that The Law of the Border will not content itself with cowboy hagiography. Shot on shoestrings somewhere between the Mojave and the afterlife, this 1925 sleeper has aged into something stranger than nostalgi...

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George Ridgwell

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" Spurs clang like cracked church bells the instant Young Buffalo’s silhouette slices the heat shimmer—an omen that The Law of the Border will not content itself with cowboy hagiography. Shot on shoestrings somewhere between the Mojave and the afterlife, this 1925 sleeper has aged into something stranger than nostalgia: a bruise that keeps discoloring. Director William Addison Lathrop, better known for moral-scold melodramas, traded pulpit for pistol and birthed a sun-blanched nightmare about a..."


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