Posse

Posse (1975) — watch online on iFILM, a revisionist Western directed by and starring Kirk Douglas.

Marshal Howard Nightingale handpicks an elite team to hunt down notorious train robber Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern). The real goal isn't justice — he wants a headline-grabbing arrest to fuel his Texas Senate campaign. His own men sense it. The town senses it. Strawhorn reads the room and starts turning people against the lawman who's supposed to catch him. Douglas flips the genre's moral compass early and keeps it flipped: the marshal is the threat, the outlaw the catalyst.

For a Western made in 1975, it's a pointed piece about how ambition corrupts the people handed a badge — and the tagline delivers: "It ends like none of them." Stream Posse (1975) online on iFILM.