| Warlock | |
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| Directed by | Edward Dmytryk |
| Screenplay by | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| Based on | Warlock by Oakley Hall |
| Produced by | Edward Dmytryk |
| Starring | Richard Widmark Henry Fonda Anthony Quinn Dorothy Malone Dolores Michaels |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
| Edited by | Jack W. Holmes |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Color process | Color by DeLuxe |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.4 million[1] |
| Box office | $1.7 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2] |
Warlock is a 1959 American Western film produced and directed by Edward Dmytryk starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn and Dorothy Malone. The picture is an adaptation of the novel Warlock by American author Oakley Hall. The film is both set and filmed in Utah.
Fonda portrays Clay Blaisedell, a freelance marshal in the fictional town of Warlock with implacable methods of dealing with troublemakers, while Widmark portrays Johnny Gannon, a former outlaw who eventually becomes the town's deputy sheriff. A subplot centers on Blaisedell's club-footed assistant, Tom Morgan, played by Quinn, who has sublimated his relationships and ambition into a warped devotion to Blaisedell, the only person Morgan thinks does not look down on him for his disability.
As in the earlier film Wichita (1955), the conflict of the law with the outlaw runs parallel to the resentment of the town's own leadership.
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p252
- ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34