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Show An Electrifying Action Film I 'The Lawless' Earns Raves Boldly blasting away at the twin evils of racial discrimination and mob violence. Paramount's "The Lawless" whicli opens at the Grove Friday, is a blistering action act-ion drama that explodes on the screen with electrifying force. Rarely has so serious theme as intolerance been presented with such startling effectiveness by the movie-makers. Most films on con-troversal con-troversal subjects tend to be "tal-ky" "tal-ky" and static, but "The Lawless" is jam-packed with excitement and thrilles from start to finish. Set in the lush farming area of California where Mexican-Americans for the majority of vitally vital-ly needed pickers, "The Lawless" explores the powder-keg relationships relation-ships that exisct between these immigrant workrs and the pure- white townspeople. When one of the young Mexican-Americans is accused of criminal crim-inal attack, hot - lieaded bigots take the lead in forming a lynch mob. Their ranks are swollen by the addition of ordinarily law-abiding citizens caught up in the hysteria, and they almost accomplish accom-plish their inhuman objective. They are thwarted, however, by a courageous newspaper editor, a girl reporter, and an influential business man. Macdonald Carey and Gail Russell Rus-sell cast in "The Lawless, " and are in a good measure responsible fr- the film's powerful impact. But most of the credit goes to Lalo Rios, who makes his movie debut in the picture as the victimized victim-ized Mexican-American youth. |