In Tom Morgan's saloon on every table is a smoking object. What are they? Incenses? Ashtrays?

Rock of ages comes to Warlock in Dmytryk's excellent adult Western.

"Looks Like Law's Coming Back To Warlock"

Over-the-top  Western wonderfully  performed by an all-star-cast and compellingly directed

Archetypal Western tragedy based on the Earp/Holliday/Tombstone legends

Surprisingly complex and intelligent film

Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Earl Holliman, and Ziva Rodann in Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)

Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, and Michel Ray in The Tin Star (1957)

Gregory Peck and Helen Westcott in The Gunfighter (1950)

Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, and Richard Widmark in Garden of Evil (1954)

Randolph Scott and Karen Steele in Ride Lonesome (1959)

John Wayne, Ina Balin, Lee Marvin, Nehemiah Persoff, and Stuart Whitman in The Comancheros (1961)

Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Richard Widmark, Dorothy Malone, and Dolores Michaels in Warlock (1959)

He just saved your life, Billy! I wonder why...

Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark in Warlock (1959)

Richard Widmark and Dorothy Malone in Warlock (1959)

Henry Fonda, DeForest Kelley, and Dolores Michaels in Warlock (1959)

DeForest Kelley and Richard Widmark in Warlock (1959)

Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn in Warlock (1959)

Richard Widmark

Henry Fonda

Anthony Quinn

Robert Alan Aurthur

Oakley Hall

A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang&apos;s rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.

Edward Dmytryk

Warlock

WARLOCK (Edward Dmytryk, 1959) ***

This popular Western isn&apos;t among the more highly-regarded genre efforts (emanating as it does from its 1950s heyday), despite the imposing credentials (many of whom were fixtures and had therefore worked on better films along the years) - but it&apos;s a pretty good example nonetheless, with solid production and an evident maturity in content and style.

The three stars - Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn - are well-cast (in fairly typical roles) and their interaction, allowing for several tense scenes, keeps one watching (for a 2 hour film, thankfully, it doesn&apos;t feel too long). Still, Dmytryk&apos;s efficient handling is unexceptional - abetted by Joe MacDonald&apos;s colorful widescreen cinematography but somewhat overshadowed by Robert Alan Aurthur&apos;s literate i.e. pretentious script (with several soul-searching passages about loyalty and responsibility). Leigh Harline&apos;s music, too, workmanlike though it is, emerges as a relatively unassuming score. The action sequences, however, deliver the goods with several gunfights throughout and even a few instances of gratuitous brutality (fashionable by this time).

However, the rest of the cast is quite interesting, with Dorothy Malone and Dolores Michaels providing the romantic interest and several familiar faces in support: Wallace Ford and Whit Bissell as town officials and, among Widmark&apos;s former cronies, DeForrest Kelley, Frank Gorshin - playing the star&apos;s hot-headed younger brother - and Tom Drake, most surprising of all as the villainous leader of the outlaw gang.

Official Trailer

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This popular Western isn't among the more highly-regarded genre efforts (emanating as it does from its 1950s heyday), despite the imposing credentials (many of whom were fixtures and had therefore worked on better films along the years) - but it's a pretty good example nonetheless, with solid production and an evident maturity in content and style.

The three stars - Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn - are well-cast (in fairly typical roles) and their interaction, allowing for several tense scenes, keeps one watching (for a 2 hour film, thankfully, it doesn't feel too long). Still, Dmytryk's efficient handling is unexceptional - abetted by Joe MacDonald's colorful widescreen cinematography but somewhat overshadowed by Robert Alan Aurthur's literate i.e. pretentious script (with several soul-searching passages about loyalty and responsibility). Leigh Harline's music, too, workmanlike though it is, emerges as a relatively unassuming score. The action sequences, however, deliver the goods with several gunfights throughout and even a few instances of gratuitous brutality (fashionable by this time).

However, the rest of the cast is quite interesting, with Dorothy Malone and Dolores Michaels providing the romantic interest and several familiar faces in support: Wallace Ford and Whit Bissell as town officials and, among Widmark's former cronies, DeForrest Kelley, Frank Gorshin - playing the star's hot-headed younger brother - and Tom Drake, most surprising of all as the villainous leader of the outlaw gang.

A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.

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