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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
EAN: 0024543172994
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: FOXD2227300D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 1959
Editorial Review:
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008 Rating: Nr
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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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Rating:  -
ANTHONY QUINN, HENRY FONDA, RICHARD WIDMARK AND DOROTHY MALONE WERE GREAT IN THIS 1959 WESTERN. ONE OF THE GREAT WESTERNS OF THE FIFTIES.
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Warlock is not only a masterpiece western, it is a fantastic creation of an even greater masterpiece of the novelist's art: Oakley Hall's Warlock, called by Thomas Pynchon the greatest American novel. It is certainly a candidate. Warlock is a supurb mythologizing of Tombstone circa. 1881. The novel, as is usually the case, is about three times as big as the movie, and the encapsulation of that time in US history in the novel is nothing short of a work of genius. Oakley Hall himself said that his ... Read More
Rating:  -
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 ... Read More
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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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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 traveling companion (Anthony Quinn), a crippled gambler, Fonda brings order to the community, but then Widmark, ... Read More
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