True Believer ( 1989 )
directed by
Joseph Ruben
starring
James Woods, Robert Downey Jr.

James Woods stars as Eddie Dodd, a lawyer who used to fight for the free spirits. Now he defends the drug dealers. Enter Roger Baron, a young law school graduate who studies under Dodd. When Baron encourages Dodd to take on the case of a wrongly imprisoned Korean man, the burnt out lawyer suddenly finds a case worth fighting for. Directed by Joseph Ruben, the film co-stars Robert Downey Jr.

Strick Justice

Screenwriter Wesley Strick, who penned both True Believer and Cape Fear, explores the nature of justice when it goes wrong.

Cape Fear ( 1991 )
directed by
Martin Scorsese
starring
Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Juliette Lewis

This film is suitable for a 18+ audience.

The film follows Max Cady (Robert De Niro), newly-released from the State Penitentiary, as he hunts down public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who withheld info 14 years earlier that may have kept Max out of jail. When random, violent acts start happening to his loved ones, Sam begins to realize that a decision he made years ago might have deadly consequences. The film, a remake of the 1962 J. Lee Thompson classic, was directed by Martin Scorsese and nominated for two Oscars.

The Ox-Bow Incident ( 1943 )
directed by
William Wellman
starring
Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan and Anthony Quinn

Two honourable, justice-seeking cowboys ride into town just as a mob seeks revenge for a farmer, who has just been murdered. Based on the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and directed by William Wellman, the film was nominated for an Academy Award.

THE INTERVIEWS 02:10 AM - 02:35 AM
Film 101: Frontier Justice Directors John Sturges and John Sayles discuss their respective films while film critic Geoff Pevere and author Kim Moritsugu analyze the modern west's treatment of old west traditions.