| Madigan | |
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| Directed by | Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel) |
| Screenplay by | Howard Rodman Abraham Polonsky |
| Based on | The Commissioner 1962 novel by Richard Dougherty |
| Produced by | Frank P. Rosenberg |
| Starring | Richard Widmark Henry Fonda Inger Stevens Harry Guardino James Whitmore Susan Clark Michael Dunn Don Stroud |
| Cinematography | Russell Metty |
| Edited by | Milton Shifman |
| Music by | Don Costa |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,100,000 (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
Madigan is a 1968 American neo-noir[2] crime drama thriller film directed by Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel) and starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Inger Stevens.
The screenplay—originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday—was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Howard Rodman (credited here under the pseudonym Henri Simoun) and Abraham Polonsky. It was based on the 1962 novel The Commissioner by Richard Dougherty, a former New York bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times who had served in the 1950s as a deputy New York City police commissioner for community relations.[3]
Siegel was a genre director known at the time for taut action films like The Lineup (1958) and Hell Is for Heroes (1962), as well as the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). He later directed five films starring Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry.
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
- ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
- ^ Goldman, John J. "Richard Dougherty, 65; Ex-Times Bureau Chief." Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1987.