Product Details

• Actors: Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone, Preston Foster, Alex Nicol, Ruth Hampton
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: May 6, 2003
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008CMSZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,245 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Law and Order" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Marshal Frame Johnson (Reagan) was "hired to keep the peace in Tombstone, not kill people." So, when an angry mob tries to lynch an outlaw without a trial, Frame realizes that he has no place in a town that doesn't want justice. Hoping to finally settle down with his sweetheart, Jeannie (Dorothy Malone), Frame moves to Cottonwood with his brothers, Lute and Jimmy, where they build a ranch. When a rash of cattle rustling threatens to drive out the decent townsfolk, and the local judge suspects that the sheriff is just as corrupt as the thieves, he appeals to Frame for help. Frame declines, but Lute accepts the badge in his place. When Lute is killed, and Jimmy is framed for murder, Frame realizes that only he must stop the corruption and restore law and order in Cottonwood or no one else will be safe. Starring: Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone Directed by: Nathan Juran

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid, Entertaining 50's Western, July 9, 2004

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Erik Rupp (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law and Order (DVD)

Law and Order is a solid, entertaining western that showcases Ronald Reagan as a leading man. Reagan gives an almost John Wayne-esque performance (you could almost call him John Wayne Light in this one). Reagan is tough, but very likeable in the role and shows the charisma that would help him in his political life just a decade later.

The story itself is something of a re-working of the Earps VS the Clantons, and it even starts in Tombstone. Reagan is Frame Johnson, tough, no-nonsense Marshall of Tombstone. He decides to retire to a nearby town to start a ranch and marry his girl, but he finds the town run by another rancher and soon Frame and his brothers are in conflict with that rancher and his family. There is plenty of good western action, and a solid story in Law and Order.

Law and Order is well worth buying for Western fans or fans of Ronald Reagan.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable vehicle for Western buffs..., November 7, 2006

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Roberto Frangie "Robert" (Leon, Gto. Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law and Order (DVD)

'Law and Order' is hardly a rich strike, and might be considered as a solid, conventional Western of 'retired gunfighter' breed...

Frame Johnson (Reagan) is a respected lawman who has cleaned up the wicked ways of Tombstone, Arizona, and wants to retire to the life of a rancher... This pleases his fiancée, Jeannie (Dorothy Malone), who runs the saloon left to her by her father... She, too, is eager to leave the rough community and be her beau's wife: 'You're big and you're ugly and you're stupid, and I happen to be in love with you.'

With his brothers, Lute (Alex Nicol) and Jimmy (Russell Johnson), and their undertaker friend, Denver (Chubby Johnson), Frame proceeds to the town of Cottonwood... Unfortunately, Cottonwood is under the domination of Kurt Durning (Preston Foster), who hates Frame because he crippled him in a previous encounter...

The citizens of Cottonwood appeal to the famous marshal to take up the badge of law and order once again, and rid them of Durning... Frame declines, but Lute accepts, which soon costs him his life when he tries to apprehend one of Durning's sons...

Frame takes the job as marshal and brings the Durning empire to an end...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I love Ronald Reagan Western, January 30, 2010

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Takehito Higashizawa "Hondo" (Kawasaki, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law and Order (DVD)

I am enjoying the old American westerns of '50s and '60s,thanks mainly for the stronger yen, I am now reaching for the Amazon's US Western market, because sometimes Japanese market lacks very important titles, and this is one of them.
I reckon, The Universal Japan should have issued this Law and Order in@Japanese subtitles, but so far they failed to do so. Talking Westerns, you must not miss this title, it's one of the few Mr. President's Westerns in his younger days, I think. Oh, I don't share this title with other Japanese enthusiasts, this will be one of my seacret treasured titles. A Western enhusiast.