Richard Widmark
Actor
- Kiss of Death (1947)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray…
- Fantastic film noir about a career criminal whose attempts to start a new life entangle him with a psychopathic murderer bent on revenge. Richard…
- Road House (1948)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Richard Widmark
- Engrossing melodrama exploring the dark side of human emotion. Psychotic club owner Richard Widmark goes into a jealous rampage when his girl decides…
- Street With No Name, The (1948)
- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan…
- One of the grittier film noirs of the 1940s, evokes its tale of corruption, mob violence and FBI infiltration with a semi–documentary surface.…
- Yellow Sky (1948)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark…
- Tough–minded western shot largely in Death Valley has Anne Baxter coming across a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in a neighboring…
- Halls of Montezuma (1950)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Karl Malden…
- Unflashy and well–cast war film, that follows the US Marines into action on a Pacific island. Makes a fairly gung–ho contrast to dir.…
- Panic in the Streets (1950)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes…
- Early New Orleans–set Kazan noir, follows the hunt for a killer who may be spreading a bubonic plague. Tense, detailed examination of morality…
- Night and the City (1950)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers…
- An overlooked film noir gem that fires on all cylinders, marked above all by a sensationally giddy performance by Richard Widmark as a two–bit…
- Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark
- Marilyn Monroe in her first leading role plays a psychotic babysitter who lures an unwitting Richard Widmark into her world of delusion.
- Pickup On South Street (1953)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark
- Pick–pocket Richard Widmark inadvertently steals a micro–film and becomes a fugitive from both police and spies. Vivid espionage thriller…
- Broken Lance (1954)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters…
- King Lear loosely transposed as a gripping Western melodrama with proud yet stubborn patriarch Spencer Tracy at odds with his ungrateful sons over…
- Garden of Evil (1954)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward…
- A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches. In Cinemascope.
- Hell and High Water (1954)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen…
- Cold war thriller with Widmark helming a submarine in pursuit of a Red freighter.
Unexceptional by Samuel Fuller's usual standards – he was…
- Backlash (1956)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell…
- Richard Widmark and Donna Reed play the tough–talkin', rootin–tootin leads in this gritty horse opera, as they both seek vengeance for…
- Run for the Sun (1956)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer…
- Righteous remake of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has Widmark and Greer running through some almighty foliage desperate to evade smarmy baddie…
- Last Wagon, The (1956)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner…
- Racially charged western with a vengeful Widmark and a wagon full of bigots under siege from Indians.
- Saint Joan (1957)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, John Gielgud…
- Colourized version of the Joan of Arc story with Jean Seberg in her acting debut.
- Law and Jake Wade, The (1958)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens…
- Western from director John Sturges (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) about a reformed town marshal whose old criminal partner starts stalking him while he's on…
- Warlock (1959)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn…
- A–grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set…
- Two Rode Together (1961)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
- Overlooked Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark starrer with the master of the genre at the helm.
- Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell…
- Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda…
- The history of the West through three generations, with three directors each contributing an instalment. Headed by a cast to match its ambitions and…
- Long Ships, The (1963)
- Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn
- Expensively produced Viking epic has the Nordic warrior Widmark clash with Moorish general Poitier over a mythical treasure, the 'Golden Bell of St…
- Bedford Incident, The (1965)
- Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier
- Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub.
- Alvarez Kelly (1966)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. William Holden, Richard Widmark
- Set during the American Civil War, this violent western concerns a running feud between the leads over cattle–rustling activities.
- Madigan (1967)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda
- Possibly the last film in which cops and crooks dress in snappy fedora hats and dark coats, a craggy Richard Widmark plays the addled NY Inspector…
- Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
- Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor…
- The first Alan Smithee film is a hard–bitten western with Widmark as an old–fashioned lawman in a town determined to modernise. The title…
- To the Devil...a Daughter (1976)
- Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski
- A kinky occult thriller, produced in Hammer's twilight years, in which Kinski is prepared as a Satanic vessel.
- Rollercoaster (1977)
- Dir. James Goldstone
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, George Segal, Henry Fonda…
- Star–studded ‘disaster’ thriller set around an amusement–park saboteur Timothy Bottoms who’s being hunted by George Segal. Neat…
- Domino Principle, The (1977)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark…
- A thoroughly minor entry in the 1970s cycle of 'conspiracy thrillers', with Hackman playing an ex–Army marksman who is, sprung from prison by…
- Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning…
- A powerful political thriller following an American Air Force pilot (Burt Lancaster) who goes renegade, escaping from military prison and taking…