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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - Warlock
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels
Directed By: Edward Dmytryk
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543172994
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-05-24
Running Time: 122
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1959-04-01
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In this Classic Western, Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn clean up a lawless town, only to discover there's even more unfinished business.
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Summary: warlock the western movie
Comment: a good western from a much underrated actor looking forward to seeing it again when i saw this the first time i realised what a good actor richard widmark was and he went on to do just as good work in many other genre,s highley recommended
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Summary: An Intelligently Scripted Western
Comment: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker
Cheyenne Warrior: The Original Screenplay with Author Commentary
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Richard Widmark has the leading role in director Edward Dmytryk's WARLOCK (1959), a bold, intelligently scripted drama for its day that even includes hints of homosexuality.
Warlock is a small frontier town that is being terrorized by an outlaw gang, led by Tom Drake. The desperate townspeople hire a well-known gunslinger (Henry Fonda) to get rid of Drake.
Along with his travelling companion (Anthony Quinn), a crippled gambler, Fonda brings order to the community, but then Widmark, a reformed member of Drake's gang, is hired as the town's legally appointed deputy sheriff.
Now, with two lawmen in Warlock, each of which has a competing agenda, a tense confrontation is brewing that can only lead to a deadly showdown.
Dorothy Malone and Dolores Michaels co-star.
© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
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Summary: Good Western!
Comment: "Warlock" is a very good film, beautiful scenery, well-acted. Apart from the bigger names--Fonda, Quinn, Widmark--Tom Drake does an excellent job in his role. It's interesting to see Drake as a villain, having already seen him in juvenile, "nice young man" parts filmed during his tenure at MGM, and I believe he was a versatile, underrated actor. Good western, well worth watching.
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Summary: An unjustly neglected Western
Comment: This unjustly neglected Western, one of the few directed by Edward Dmytryk, the other being "Broken Lance", was too far ahead of its time perhaps because rather than action we get a psychological study of a western town in chaos. In a way, this Western pre-dated "The Unforgiven", "High Plains Drifter" and "The Wild Bunch" into delving into the psychology of the characters and their relationships. There is the town tamer (Fonda) and his buddy (Quinn) who have what one might call a latent homo-erotic relationship underneath their co-dependancy. And the ex-gang member of group of outlaws (Widmark) who gradually shifts to the right side of the law when Fonda & co. start controlling the town. And of course there are the women (Dorothy Malone & Dolores Michaels) who indirectly cause a split in Fonda/Quinn relationship. This was pretty heady stuff for 1959 so I doubt if many people were ready for this--a Western film noir!! And of course, the book, itself, by Oakley Hall had to be severely altered for the film version since it ran well over 600 pages long. Nevertheless if you want to see something other than a standard Western--check this out. Widmark, Fonda & Quinn have never been better!!
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Summary: Fascinating
Comment: Fonda and Quinn have wonderful presence and charisma. Widmark's character has none. As he is the 3rd key factor in this story, this is too great a failure to hook me into caring for him. Not least, for this reason: although all 3 are killers, Widmarks mass-murderous past makes his new-found 'moral code' somewhat shakey. I enjoyed the movie for its ideas and complexity nevertheless, and for 1959 it may well have been worth 5 stars, but today we expect the script to be a bit tighter. I found far too many moments of Huh? What? Where did that come from? ... as the characters changed their behaviour and attitude too suddenly for me ... against the apparent flow of the tale. Perhaps something like a modern miniseries would be needed to give such an interesting story the space and the time to fulfill its rich character study potential. Fonda and Quinn make it definitely worth a watch, and the 'huh?' moments do make you think.
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