LAWBREAKER - DVD

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Crime
• Plot: For decades, generations of viewers have tuned in faithfully to witness the dirty deeds and clean resolutions that televised crime shows routinely deliver. It's a time-proven format that never fails to satisfy - justice served, in well under an hour.; ; Lee Marvin Presents: Lawbreakers, featuring the talents of one of Hollywood's most iconic tough guys, stands out in a genre that has produced some of television's most popular and influential programming and some of it's more memorable personalities; ; Cast as a bad guy early in his career, Lee Marvin began making a name for himself with supporting roles in The Wild One and The Big Heat in 1953 before his performance as a sadistic cowboy in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) cemented his reputation as a leading screen villian. He was propelled to stardom and leading man status following outstanding performances in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and in The Killers (1964). The Western-comedy Cat Ballou (1965) earned Marvin widespread critical kudos, as well as an Academy Award for Best Actor.; ; In addition to his big-screen successes, Marvin starred in two television series, M Squad (NBC, 1957-60), which cast him as a plainclothes detective who is a member of a special squad with the Chicago Police Department that takes on organized crime, and later, as host and narrator of Lee Marvin Presents: Lawbreaker. One of the first television crime dramas to feature semi-documentary re-creations of real life cases, the show pioneered a format that is still wildly popular almost fifty years later. Each of the programs was selected by a different police force, and includes many of the actual participants, the witnesses and informers, the undercover cops and patrolmen, the criminals and their victims.; ; Marvin's tough as nails persona and his trademark no-nonsense delivery shine through as he guides us through a sordid collection of criminal activity extracted from the crime dockets of some of America's biggest cities. As Marvin states in every show, 'You'll see the stories that actually happened, where it happened and meet the people to whom it happened.'
• Cast: Lee Marvin, Daniel Colella, Dominic Iannarelli, Mike Mann, Alan North, Jim Black, Melvin Boyer, Louis Puckett, Wade Hundley, Helen Iannarelli, Tommy King, Les Kretman, William Desmond, Captain Lugo, Frank Welch, Helene Iannarelli, Bill Miller, Jan Tanzy, Lieutenant Walter, Berton Horblet, June Iannarelli, Nick Previti, Officer Cantrell, John Sparks, Joanne Zapiak, Officer Lucas, Jess Cain, William Wallace, Dan Patacchia, James Daross, Donald Olson, Sam Cohen, Robert R. Unruhe, Angelo Sylvester, Garland Garrett, Robert Cullen, Gerald A. Margolis, Howard R. Leary, William Botts, Robert Bailey, Jim Barringer, Dennis Foley, Jesse E. Curry, Will Fritz, David Geller, Alan Scharf, Michael Vandever, Rex Andrews, Dick Balduzzi, Gene Benton, Ray Boyle, Barbara Cox, Diana Crawford, Seamon Glass, Jim Goodwin, Charles Green, Fiona Hale, Adam Lazarre, Vana Leslie, Noreen Hartsfield, Jack Lennhoff, Linda Peterson, Kenneth Gilbert, Babe Unger, Jack Herzberg, Eddie Davis, Dann Cahn, Robert Barry, Vernon E. Clark, Karl Daniels, Whitney Ellsworth, Steve Fisher, Richard Goss, Stuart Jerome, James A. Maxwell, Emmett Murphy, Gene Roddenberry, Gy Waldron, Mort Zarcoff
• Director: Kenneth Gilbert
• Runtime: 13:50
• Company: Latimer Productions, United Artists Television, MGM - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Timeless Media Group
• Media Format: Series