Warlock
by Edward Dmytryk
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Actor: Anthony Quinn, Dolores Michaels, Dorothy Malone, Henry Fonda, Richard WidmarkDirector: Edward Dmytryk
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Producer: Edward Dmytryk
Editor: Jack W. Holmes
Writer: Oakley Hall
Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Warlock
Movie Review: Not as good as I remembered, but a good, tough, mean Western
Summary: 3 Stars
Saw this as a kid, and was a bit disappointed when I watched the DVD tonight. Edward Dmytryk's direction is a bit slow at times, although the three lead actors bring great authority to their roles, and Quinn in particular has a great time as the creepy (and possibly gay-fixated) right hand to Fonda. The script has lots of shooting and killing, but it seems to be over at least 30 minutes before it actually is, and the many shootouts become repetitious. The female leads bring little to the film; Dorothy Malone pouts and postures, and Dolores Michaels was a fairly colorless ingenue.
Still, the film has its place as a more adult Western than many others, and can be recommended. The quality of the DVD is variable. The widescreen Cinemascope process is well captured, but the colors are often pale and washed out. And speaking of pale, why would Fox show a trailer of the Technicolor DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK in black and white?
Summary of Warlock
In this Classic Western, Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn clean up a lawless town, only to discover there's even more unfinished business.Warlock is a fascinating yet frustrating CinemaScope Western, almost unique in the genre for being based on a literarily respectable novel--Oakley Hall's 1958 recasting of the Wyatt-Earp-in-Tombstone legend. As adapted by TV dramatist Robert Alan Aurthur, the tale focuses on three men: the elegant gambler/gunfighter/lawman-for-hire Blaisdell (Henry Fonda in the Earp part); his lethal partner and creepily possessive best friend Morgan (Anthony Quinn as a variation on Doc Holliday); and Johnny Gannon (Richard Widmark), a ranch cowboy more burdened with scruples than his fellow rowdies, who have made the silver-mining town of Warlock their violent playground. To reclaim their community, the townsfolk strike a bargain with the devil they don't know--Blaisdell--in hopes of being delivered from the devil they do, the cowboys and their cold-blooded boss McQuown (former MGM juve Tom Drake in the Ike Clanton role).
Fonda's and Widmark's characters evolve intriguingly; Blaisdell affords Western aficionados early hints of Fonda's badman Frank in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, while Widmark's Gannon reforms, becomes town deputy, and has to go up against not only his old cronies but the hired marshal. Sad to say, despite its three strong leads and a script full of shootings, sadism, and no end of betrayals, the movie keeps bogging down from too much undigested backstory, too much talk, and Edward Dmytryk's flatfooted direction. Even the redoubtable cinematographer Joe MacDonald, who so stunningly shot John Ford's Earp-in-Tombstone classic My Darling Clementine 13 years earlier, disappoints with bland, featureless lighting better suited to a TV show. Speaking of which, future Star Trekker DeForest Kelley plays the only other McQuown rider with a conscience. --Richard T. Jameson
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