Valdez Is Coming

3/9/2026

Proof, if it were ever needed, that scorning Burt Lancaster is a dangerous thing to do. Town deputy “Valdez”, a Mexican American veteran of the US cavalry, is tricked into killing a man accused of murder by local bigwig “Tanner” (Jon Cypher) and so he demands some compensation for his pregnant widow. Derided, beaten and driven from the town as if he were heading to Calvary, he must recuperate and recalibrate before kidnapping his new enemy’s gal “Susan” (Gay Erin) and then returning for his pounds of flesh - and woe betide anyone who gets in his way, including the odious “Davis” (Richard Jordan) who has a bit of a yellow streak and “El Segundo” (Barton Heyman) who works as his boss’s number two, and who also has a well hidden streak of his own - only it is decency. What now ensues is actua