Chato's Land

Chato's Land
Chato's Land
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael Winner
Screenplay by	Gerald Wilson
Produced by	Michael Winner
Starring	Charles Bronson; Jack Palance
Cinematography	Robert Paynter
Edited by	Michael Winner
Music by	Jerry Fielding
Production; company	Scimitar Films
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	May 25, 1972 (United States);
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Chato's Land is a 1972 Western Technicolor film directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jack Palance.

In Apache country, the half-native Chato shoots the local sheriff in self-defense, and finds himself hunted by a posse of ex-Confederates, who rape his wife and leave her hogtied in the open as a bait to trap him. After freeing her, Chato uses his superior fieldcraft skills to lure each of the posse to their deaths.

The film can be classified in the revisionist Western genre, which was at its height at the time, with a dramatizing of racism and oblique referencing of the Vietnam War. The original screenplay was written by Gerry Wilson.