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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warlock (20th Century-Fox) is a two-hour, $2,000,000 western with three major stars (Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn), two main heroes, two main villains, three main plots, five subplots, eight cooling corpses, and nine major outbreaks of violence. Hero No. 1 (Fonda), a sort of Good Bad Guy, is a notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Cobb) wanted by the federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start out across a gangster-infested desert in the direction of the nearest police station. Groans Actor Cobb: "It's gonna be a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...rolling stone that starts it all is The Good Guy (Robert Taylor)-he's the one with the prettiest horse-who is about to marry The Girl (Patricia Owens) -she's the one with the gingham dress-when they are kidnaped by The Bad Guy (Richard Widmark)-he's the one with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 14, 1958 | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Last Wagon (20th Century-Fox). "Oooo!" gasps Felicia Farr, "I didn't know Comanches kissed like this!" She is all alone on a butte with Richard Widmark, a renegade white raised by Indians, who promptly introduces her to some even more interesting Comanche customs. "Girls and ponies both," Widmark muses. "The younger you break 'em in the better . . . You been broke in yet?" Felicia says no, but it's obvious she'd like to be, especially after he tells her about a tepee lie has seen that is all of 20 feet across. But before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...masterly bit of total recall, Widmark identifies his hosts as Nazi war criminals. Instead of telling them that if they would just go home everything would be forgiven, Widmark and Jane plunge into the jungle, pursued by the Nazis and their venomous wolf pack. The villains should have known better. Widmark kills the first Nazi with a homemade crossbow, the second with a lucky bullet, and the third by running him down in his own airplane. Jane has her story. Widmark can write again. They're in love. All that is needed is someone to wake the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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