Warlock
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Actor: Anthony Quinn, Dolores Michaels, Dorothy Malone, Henry Fonda, Richard WidmarkBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, 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: "Widmark...Fonda...Quinn...Malone...Dmytryk ~ Warlock (1959)"
Summary: 5 Stars
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment present "WARLOCK" (1959) (121 mins Color), under director & producer Edward Dmytryk, screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur, book author Oakley Hall, musical direction by Alfred Newman, music score by Leigh Harline . . . . .cast includes Richard Widmark (Johnny Gannon), Henry Fonda (Clay Blaisdell), Anthony Quinn (Tom Morgan), Dorothy Malone (Lilly Dollar), Dolores Michaels (Jessie Marlow), Wallace Ford (Judge Holloway), Tom Drake (Abe McQuown Richard Arlen (Bacon), DeForest Kelley (Curley Burne), Regis Toomey (Skinner), Vaughan Taylor (Richardson), Don Beddoe (Dr. Wagner), Whit Bissell (Mr. Petrix), Bartlett Robinson (Slavin), J. Anthony Hughes (Shaw), Don "Red" Barry (Edward Calhoun), Frank Gorshin (Billy Gannon), L.Q. Jones (Jiggs). . . . . our story has a darker than most plot almost as "film noir" comes West, covering issues at a level rarely seen in this genre...Richard Widmark heads an array of outstanding actors that included Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn, in the supporting cast were Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Tom Drake, DeForest Kelley, Wallace Ford, Whit Bissell, Regis Toomey, and Frank Gorshin)...on with the plot, Widmark plays a reformed baddie who has done his share of causing havoc in the town of Warlock...now enters Fonda and Quinn respectively play a gunman and his club-footed business associate (no slouch with a gun himself) who are hired by the good people of Warlock to restore law and order...through a number of events Widmark then becomes the town's sheriff, representing its new conscience and regrowth, setting himself against Fonda and Quinn, who try to control the town...Dorothy Malone shows up accusing Fonda and Quinn of having murdered her fiance... Fonda and Quinn's relationship is strained beyond repair when Fonda falls in love with a respectable townswoman Dolores Michaels...great scene is the showdown between Fonda and Anthony Quinn against Frank Gorshin and three other ranch hands...all the performances are first-rate, with Quinn's portrait of a pathological Westerner registering most strongly..."Warlock" remains director Dmytryk's masterpiece and one of the great Westerns...Edward Dmytryk best known films from the pre-McCarthy period of his career were "Crossfire" (1947), for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination and "Murder, My Sweet" (1944), as the latter an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely" (1975)....these films were made with expensive stars of the calibre of Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, but apart from the memorable Western "Warlock" (1959), which he also produced, his work had lost much of the emotional urgency and psychological thrust represented by his early film noir "Crossfire" (1947)...after his film career tapered off in the 70s, he entered academia and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, and at the University of Southern California. He wrote several books on the art of film-making, Dmytryk died in 1999, aged 90.
Specal footnote, actor Richard Widmark (born December 26, 1914 in Sunrise, Minnesota) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actor.Widmark's first movie appearance was in 1947's "Kiss of Death", as the giggling, sociopathic villain Tommy Udo, Widmark's most notorious scene in the film found Udo pushing a wheelchair-bound old woman (played by Mildred Dunnock) down a flight of stairs to her death. "Kiss of Death" was a commercial and critical success, and started Widmark's seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox...he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Udo...idmark's character in this film was the inspiration for the song, "The Ballad of Tommy Udo" by the band Kaleidoscope...Widmark became so popular so fast that it was only two years later that he had his handprints cast in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater...in the intervening two years, he had appeared in "Slattery's Hurricane" (1949), "Down to the Sea in Ships" (1949), "Yellow Sky" (1948), "Road House" (1949) and "The Street with No Name" (1948), "The Last Wagon" (1956), "The Alamo" (1960), "Two Rode Together" (1961), "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), "How the West Was Won" (1962), "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964), "Alvarez Kelly" (1967), "The Way West" (1967)...Widmark starred in his own TV series in "Madigan" (1972), based on his hit movie of 1968, but only six episodes were produced before the show was canceled...then in 1988 The American Movie Classics cable TV channel honored Widmark by airing "The Richard Widmark Film Festival."
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Richard Widmark
Date of birth: 26 December 1914 - Sunrise, Minnesota
Date of death: Still Living
2. Henry Fonda (aka: Henry Jaynes Fonda)
Date of birth: 16 May 1905 - Grand Island, Nebraska
Date of death: 12 August 1982 - Los Angeles, California,
3. Anthony Quinn (aka: Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn)
Date of birth: 21 April 1915 - Chihuahua, Mexico
Date of death: 3 June 2001 - Boston, Massachusetts
4. Dorothy Malone (aka: Dorothy Eloise Maloney)
Date of birth: 30 January 1925 - Chicago, Illinois,
Date of death: Still Living
5. Edward Dmytryk (Director)
Date of birth: 4 September 1908 - Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Date of death: 1 July 1999 - Encino, California
Want to thank 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for releasing "Warlock" (1959), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage era of the '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or 20th Century Fox Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available, stay tuned once again for top notch wonderful character actors of the cinema brought back so many wonderful memories of the times when film makers cared about you who purchased a ticket and came back for more...just the way we like 'em.
Total Time: 121 mins on DVD ~ 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment #2227300 ~ (5/24/2005)
Summary of Warlock
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