Richard Widmark
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Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death. Early in his career Widmark specialized in similar villainous or anti-hero roles in films noir, but he later branched out into more heroic leading and support roles in westerns, mainstream dramas and horror films, among others.
At his death, Widmark was the earliest surviving Oscar nominee in the Supporting Actor category, and one of only two left from the 1940s (the other having been James Whitmore). For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Widmark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death. Early in his career Widmark specialized in similar villainous or anti-hero roles in films noir, but he later branched out into more heroic leading and support roles in westerns, mainstream dramas and horror films, among others.
At his death, Widmark was the earliest surviving Oscar nominee in the Supporting Actor category, and one of only two left from the 1940s (the other having been James Whitmore). For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Widmark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
As: Skip McCoy (archive footage)
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Richard Schickel
Stars: Samuel Fuller | Sydney Pollack | Gene Evans | John Ireland | Reed Hadley
Lincoln (1992)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Runtime: 240 min.
Directed by: Peter W. Kunhardt | James A. Edgar
Stars: James Earl Jones | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Jason Robards | Glenn Close | Richard Widmark
True Colors (1991)
As: Sen. James Stiles
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Stars: John Cusack | James Spader | Mandy Patinkin | Richard Widmark | Imogen Stubbs
Cold Sassy Tree (1989)
As: Enoch Rucker Blakeslee
In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Joan Tewkesbury
Stars: Faye Dunaway | Frances Fisher | Lee Garlington | John M. Jackson | Richard Widmark
James Stewart's Wonderful Life (1988)
As: (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Runtime: 87 min.
Stars: Clint Eastwood | James Stewart | Roger Vadim | Tab Hunter | Johnny Carson
Once Upon A Texas Train (1988)
As: Captain Owen Hayes
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry, an outlaw cowboy, and put him behind bars. Twenty years later, upon his release, Henry is older but unrepentant. Within six hours after leaving his jail cell, he evens the score with Hayes by holding up the Bank of Texas for $20,000 in gold. Hayes, in his ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
Stars: Angie Dickinson | Chuck Connors | Richard Widmark | Willie Nelson | Shaun Cassidy
A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
As: Sheriff Mapes
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her daring defense of this group of men, ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Will Patton | Richard Widmark | Joe Seneca | Holly Hunter | Louis Gossett, Jr.
Blackout (1985)
As: Joe Steiner
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Douglas Hickox
Stars: Jerry Wasserman | Keith Carradine | Kathleen Quinlan | Richard Widmark | Michael Beck
Against All Odds (1984)
As: Ben Caxton
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Stars: Jeff Bridges | Rachel Ward | James Woods | Alex Karras | Jane Greer
The Final Option (1982)
As: Secretary of State Arthur Currie
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Ian Sharp
Stars: Edward Woodward | Judy Davis | Robert Webber | Richard Widmark | Lewis Collins
Hanky Panky (1982)
As: Ransom
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Sidney Poitier
Stars: Kathleen Quinlan | Robert Prosky | Gene Wilder | Richard Widmark | Gilda Radner
National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982)
As: Stan Nagurski ("Municipalians")
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Henry Jaglom | Bob Giraldi
Stars: Diane Lane | Peter Riegert | Teresa Ganzel | Candy Clark | Ann Dusenberry
A Whale for the Killing (1981)
As: Tom Goodenough
A conservationst tries to rescue a whale, which is trapped in a lagoon in New Foundland. Based upon the book by Farley Mowat.
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Dee Wallace | Bruce McGill | Richard Widmark | Kathryn Walker | Peter Strauss
Bear Island (1979)
As: Otto Gerran
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Don Sharp
Stars: Christopher Lee | Vanessa Redgrave | Donald Sutherland | Richard Widmark | Barbara Parkins
Mr. Horn (1979)
The story of frontiersman Tom Horn, and his career as a cavalry scout, a tracker, a Pinkerton agent and a range detective, and the final events in his life that led to his tragic death.
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: Jack Starrett
Stars: Karen Black | David Carradine | Richard Masur | Richard Widmark
The Swarm (1978)
As: Gen. Thaddeus Slater
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Irwin Allen
Stars: Michael Caine | Katharine Ross | Richard Widmark | Richard Chamberlain | Olivia de Havilland
Coma (1978)
As: Dr. Harris
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Michael Crichton
Stars: Michael Douglas | Rip Torn | Geneviève Bujold | Elizabeth Ashley | Richard Widmark
Rollercoaster (1977)
As: Agent Hoyt
The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. The young man played by Timothy Bottoms gives a hard time to the cops after they give him UV marked money. He then wants revenge and places a bomb in a roller coaster at the most important amusement park event ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: James Goldstone
Stars: George Segal | Timothy Bottoms | Richard Widmark | Susan Strasberg | Henry Fonda
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
As: Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Runtime: 146 min.
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Charles Durning | Roscoe Lee Browne | Joseph Cotten | Burt Lancaster | Melvyn Douglas
The Domino Principle (1977)
As: Marvin Tagge
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in prison for murder, he has hit rock-bottom. But one day a man in a three-piece suit visits him in prison, a man he has never seen before, and informs him that he can ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Candice Bergen | Edward Albert | Mickey Rooney | Gene Hackman | Richard Widmark
The Sell Out (1976)
As: Sam Lucas
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Peter Collinson
Stars: Oliver Reed | Sam Wanamaker | Gayle Hunnicutt | Richard Widmark | Shmuel Rodensky
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
As: John Verney
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Peter Sykes
Stars: Christopher Lee | Honor Blackman | Denholm Elliott | Richard Widmark | Michael Goodliffe
The Last Day (1975)
As: Will Spence
The Dalton gang is riding again, forcing a retired gunman to use his weapons once more.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Vincent McEveety
Stars: Richard Jaeckel | Richard Widmark | Tim Matheson | Barbara Rush | Robert Conrad
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
As: Mr. Ratchett
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Albert Finney | Lauren Bacall | Martin Balsam | Jacqueline Bisset | Ingrid Bergman
When the Legends Die (1972)
As: Red Dillon
An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Stuart Miller
Stars: Luana Anders | Frederic Forrest | Vito Scotti | Herbert Nelson | Richard Widmark
The Moonshine War (1970)
As: Dr. Taulbee
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Richard Quine
Stars: Patrick McGoohan | Alan Alda | Will Geer | Richard Widmark | Melodie Johnson
Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
As: Marshal Frank Patch
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Alan Smithee | Robert Totten | Don Siegel
Stars: Carroll O'Connor | Richard Widmark | Jacqueline Scott | Kent Smith | Lena Horne
A Talent for Loving (1969)
As: Major William Patten
This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler discovers that his new lands have entangled him in an ancient Aztec curse. The ranch's patriarch tries to persuade the newcomer to marry his daughter and explains that the family's women are doomed to be especially fierce and prolific in their ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Richard Quine
Stars: Cesar Romero | Richard Widmark | Max Showalter | Geneviève Page | Chaim Topol
Madigan (1968)
As: Daniel Madigan
Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Don Siegel
Stars: Harry Guardino | Susan Clark | Richard Widmark | Henry Fonda | Inger Stevens
The Way West (1967)
As: Lije Evans
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Sally Field | Kirk Douglas | Robert Mitchum | Richard Widmark | Lola Albright
Alvarez Kelly (1966)
As: Col. Tom Rossiter
A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Patrick O'Neal | Richard Widmark | William Holden | Janice Rule | Victoria Shaw
The Bedford Incident (1965)
As: Captain Eric Finlander, U.S.N.
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew, and the on-screen tension, to breaking point in ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: James B. Harris
Stars: Martin Balsam | Sidney Poitier | Richard Widmark | Eric Portman | James MacArthur
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
As: Capt. Thomas Archer
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: John Ford
Stars: Richard Widmark | Carroll Baker | Karl Malden | Sal Mineo | Dolores del Río
The Long Ships (1964)
As: Rolfe
In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of "The Mother of Voices," a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as three men, but he adds enough incorrect details to throw them off the proper trail. However, Aly Mansuh, the leader of a group of ambitious Moors, sees through Rolfe's story, and soon the two ...
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Jack Cardiff
Stars: Russ Tamblyn | Sidney Poitier | Rosanna Schiaffino | Richard Widmark | Oskar Homolka
Flight From Ashiya (1964)
As: L:t. Col. Glenn Stevenson
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Shirley Knight | Yul Brynner | Richard Widmark | George Chakiris | Suzy Parker
How the West Was Won (1962)
As: Mike King
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Runtime: 164 min.
Directed by: Richard Thorpe | George Marshall | Henry Hathaway | John Ford
Stars: Carroll Baker | Henry Fonda | Karl Malden | Lee J. Cobb | Carolyn Jones
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
As: Col. Tad Lawson
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Runtime: 186 min.
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Maximilian Schell | Burt Lancaster | Richard Widmark | Marlene Dietrich | Spencer Tracy
Two Rode Together (1961)
As: First Lt. Jim Gary
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: John Ford
Stars: James Stewart | Linda Cristal | Richard Widmark | Andy Devine | Shirley Jones
The Secret Ways (1961)
As: Michael Reynolds
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go!
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Stars: Senta Berger | Richard Widmark | Charles Regnier | Walter Rilla | Sonja Ziemann
The Alamo (1960)
As: Jim Bowie
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Runtime: 162 min.
Directed by: John Wayne
Stars: Frankie Avalon | John Wayne | Richard Widmark | Patrick Wayne | Laurence Harvey
Warlock (1959)
As: Johnny Gannon
A band of murderous cowboys have imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. When the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend Tom Morgan and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Richard Widmark | Henry Fonda | Dorothy Malone | Dolores Michaels
The Trap (1959)
As: Ralph Anderson
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Norman Panama
Stars: Tina Louise | Richard Widmark | Carl Benton Reid | Lee J. Cobb | Earl Holliman
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
As: August 'Augie' Poole
The Pooles are unable to have a baby after years of trying. They apply to the Rock-A-Bye Adoption Agency, and are assigned Miss Novick as an investigator. Through a farfetched mis-communication she gets a very bad impression of Augie Poole and indicates her report will be unfavorable. Through even more far-fetched circumstances, Augie is able to change Miss Novick's mind, and later comes to believe the ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Gene Kelly
Stars: Gig Young | Richard Widmark | Doris Day | Elisabeth Fraser | Gia Scala
The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
As: Clint Hollister
Jake Wade breaks Cling Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks ...
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: John Sturges
Stars: Henry Silva | Richard Widmark | Robert Middleton | Patricia Owens | Robert Taylor
Time Limit (1957)
As: Col. William Edwards
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing Edwards to move this case to court martial, Edwards becomes convinced of Cargill's innocence.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Karl Malden
Stars: June Lockhart | Martin Balsam | Richard Widmark | Richard Basehart | Dolores Michaels
Saint Joan (1957)
As: The Dauphin, Charles VII
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Stars: John Gielgud | Jean Seberg | Richard Widmark | Adolf Wohlbrück | Richard Todd
The Last Wagon (1956)
As: Comanche Todd
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Stars: Richard Widmark | Felicia Farr | Tommy Rettig | Ray Stricklyn | Susan Kohner
Run for the Sun (1956)
As: Michael 'Mike' Latimer
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Roy Boulting
Stars: Trevor Howard | Richard Widmark | Peter van Eyck | Jane Greer | Juan García
Backlash (1956)
As: Jim Slater
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: John Sturges
Stars: John McIntire | Richard Widmark | Barton MacLane | William Campbell | Donna Reed
A Prize of Gold (1955)
As: Sergeant Joe Lawrence
A U.S. sergeant (Richard Widmark), a British sergeant and a British pilot (Nigel Patrick) hijack gold for a German refugee's (Mai Zetterling) war orphans.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Mark Robson
Stars: Richard Widmark | George Cole | Nigel Patrick | Mai Zetterling | Donald Wolfit
The Cobweb (1955)
As: Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Lauren Bacall | Richard Widmark | Charles Boyer | Gloria Grahame | Lillian Gish
Broken Lance (1954)
As: Ben Devereaux
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Robert Wagner | Richard Widmark | Katy Jurado | Jean Peters | Spencer Tracy
Garden of Evil (1954)
As: Fiske
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Cameron Mitchell | Richard Widmark | Hugh Marlowe | Susan Hayward | Gary Cooper
Hell and High Water (1954)
As: Capt. Adam Jones
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Gene Evans | Cameron Mitchell | Richard Widmark | Victor Francen | Bella Darvi
Take the High Ground! (1953)
As: Sgt. Thorne Ryan
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Stars: Russ Tamblyn | Richard Widmark | Carleton Carpenter | Karl Malden | Elaine Stewart
Pickup on South Street (1953)
As: Skip McCoy
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Richard Kiley | Richard Widmark | Jean Peters | Thelma Ritter | Murvyn Vye
Destination Gobi (1953)
As: Sam McHale
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Robert Wise
Stars: Richard Widmark | Max Showalter | Darryl Hickman | Murvyn Vye | Don Taylor
My Pal Gus (1952)
As: Dave Jennings
A single father (Richard Widmark) falls in love with his son's schoolteacher (Joanne Dru). Director Robert Parrish's 1952 drama also stars George Winslow, Audrey Totter, Regis Toomey, Joan Banks and Frank Nelson.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Robert Parrish
Stars: Richard Widmark | Joanne Dru | Audrey Totter | Joan Banks | George Winslow
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
As: The Clarion Call: Johnny Kernan
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Henry Hathaway | Henry King | Henry Koster | Jean Negulesco | Howard Hawks
Stars: David Wayne | Richard Widmark | Marilyn Monroe | Dale Robertson | Charles Laughton
Don't Bother To Knock (1952)
As: Jed Towers
Jed, an airline pilot, (Widmark) is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell (Monroe), a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises that the woman is not as stable as perhaps she should be. A unique thriller featuring a rare dramatic performance from Monroe, illustrating a broader range than most people might expect..
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Anne Bancroft | Richard Widmark | Jeanne Cagney | Marilyn Monroe | Donna Corcoran
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
As: Cliff Mason
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Joseph M. Newman
Stars: Richard Widmark | Jeffrey Hunter | Constance Smith | Richard Boone | Warren Stevens
The Frogmen (1951)
As: Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Robert Wagner | Dana Andrews | Gary Merrill | Richard Widmark | Jeffrey Hunter
Halls of Montezuma (1951)
As: Lt. Carl Anderson
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Jack Palance | Richard Widmark | Jack Webb | Karl Malden | Richard Boone
No Way Out (1950)
As: Ray Biddle
The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Sidney Poitier | Richard Widmark | Linda Darnell | Stephen McNally | Harry Bellaver
Panic in the Streets (1950)
As: Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Stars: Jack Palance | Richard Widmark | Zero Mostel | Paul Douglas | Barbara Bel Geddes
Night and the City (1950)
As: Harry Fabian
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Stars: Googie Withers | Richard Widmark | Gene Tierney | Hugh Marlowe | Francis L. Sullivan
Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
As: Lt. Willard Francis Slattery
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: André De Toth
Stars: Gary Merrill | Richard Widmark | Linda Darnell | John Russell | Veronica Lake
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
As: Dan Lunceford
A re-make of the 1922 silent film that details the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Dean Stockwell | Richard Widmark | Cecil Kellaway | Gene Lockhart | Lionel Barrymore
Yellow Sky (1948)
As: Dude
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Stars: Gregory Peck | Richard Widmark | John Russell | Robert Arthur | Anne Baxter
Road House (1948)
As: Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Cornel Wilde | Ida Lupino | Richard Widmark | Celeste Holm | O.Z. Whitehead
The Street with No Name (1948)
As: Alec Stiles
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: William Keighley
Stars: Lloyd Nolan | Richard Widmark | Mark Stevens | Ed Begley | Barbara Lawrence
Kiss of Death (1947)
As: Tommy Udo
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Richard Widmark | Brian Donlevy | Taylor Holmes | Coleen Gray | Victor Mature