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List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543172994
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 16878
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 1959
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Editorial Review:
Description:
In this Classic Western, Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn clean up a lawless town, only to discover there's even more unfinished business.
Amazon.com:
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:  -
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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 ... Read More
Rating:  -
"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.
Rating:  -
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 ... Read More
Rating: -
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 ... Read More
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The Edward Dmytryk directed western "Warlock" proved to be a worthy flick that borrowed themes from classics of the genre. As in films like "The Magnificent Seven" and "High Plains Drifter", among others, a town is targeted for mayhem by a marauding band of desperadoes. The denizens of the town get fed up and hire a shootist to restore order.
The town in this film is Warlock and the hired gun is legendary lawman Clay Blaisedell played by western veteran Henry Fonda. Fonda, whose M.O. finds ... Read More
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