WARLOCK (1959) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Edward Dmytryk
Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn,
Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Tom Drake,
Wallace Ford, Richard Arlen, DeForest Kelley,
Regis Toomey, Vaughn Taylor, Whit Bissell
Shifty morals and shifting alliances in a western starring Richard Widmark as an outlaw cowboy-turned-lawman, Henry Fonda as a gunman hired to keep the peace, and Anthony Quinn as a gambler whose main job seems to be watching Fonda's back. Director Edward Dmytryk had been blacklisted, and it's one of those '50s westerns in which the metaphorical implications are up for grabs. If you watch it, see if you don't think there's a little Dean Martin in Quinn's performance.
