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No Way Out **** (1950, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Harry Bellaver) – Classic Movie Review 3604

Co-writer/director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1950 pioneering hospital-bound race-issue film-noir melodrama No Way Out is commendably intense and powerful. Sidney Poitier stars as Dr Luther Brooks, a young black doctor whose white patient dies; a race […]

Apr, 23

Halls of Montezuma **** (1950, Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone, Jack Webb) – Classic Movie Review 3505

Director Lewis Milestone’s patriotic 1950 war movie stars Richard Widmark, who is on fine fighting form as Lieutenant Carl Anderson, the former school teacher who turns a rag-tag company of American Marines into an effective fighting […]

Mar, 26

Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

The Street with No Name **** (1948, Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence, Ed Begley) – Classic Movie Review 3466

The 1948 film noir movie The Street with No Name is a follow-up to the hit 1945 The House on 92nd Street and stars Mark Stevens as FBI undercover agent Gene Cordell, who infiltrates a deadly […]

Mar, 11

Hell and High Water **** (1954, Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 3457

20th Century Fox’s complex, nail-biting, labyrinthine Cold War thriller about an American submarine’s mission up to the Arctic to put a spoke in the wheels of a Chinese conspiracy to start a war against America […]

Mar, 07

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

The Swarm * (1978, Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Katharine Ross, Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray) – Classic Movie Review 3099

The 1978 horror thriller The Swarm is a particularly silly disaster movie from the king of genre, producer-director Irwin Allen, that is a hoot to watch if you are in the right frame of mind. […]

Nov, 26

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