Valdez is Coming

Name: Valdez is Coming
Director: Edwin Sherin
Released: 1971

The Run Down.

The town constable, Bob Valdez, is forced to kill someone accused by Frank Tanner of being a murderer. Valdez asks Tanner for monetary help for the man's wife, but he is ridiculed and almost killed by Tanner's henchmen. Valdez recovers and summons up his days in the U.S. Cavalry in order to fight them. Valdez wounds one of the henchmen and sends him back to Tanner with the message, "Valdez is coming." (IMDB)

Release Year: 1971

Source: Novel ( Valdez is Coming)

Director: Edwin Sherin

Written by: Roland Kibbee, David Rayfiel

Production: United Artists

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Mr. Lancaster himself is simply beyond criticism, an enduring star whose screen personality—decent, liberal, tough, well-intentioned—provides the shape of the movies that are constructed around him.

— The New York Times

The Book: Valdez is Coming

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem—and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice—and some money for the dead man's woman—they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die . . .

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