Warlock

  • Western
5/15/1959
122
NR

Wherever you've been ... Whatever you've seen ... You've never run into anything like Warlock.

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.

Revenue:
$1,700,000
Budget:
$2,400,000

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  • John Chard

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

    Warlock is a small town suffering from visits by a gang of thugs led by Abe McQuown. The honest townsfolk meet and decide to hire infamous gunslinger Clay Blaisedell to act as a Marshal. Blaisdell, aided by his trusty companion Tom Morgan, proceeds to clean up the town and promptly takes control of the gambling and dance parlour. But things are rarely straight forward in a town of this type, one of the thugs (Johnny Gannon) decides to reform himself and takes on the role of legal sheriff. Things are further complicated when a woman arrives in town proclaiming that Blaisedell and Morgan killed the love of her life! This coupled with the fact that McQuown and his thugs are...

    May 7, 2014
  • Wuchak

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

    A professional town-tamer named Blaisdell (Henry Fonda) is hired as an independent marshal by the citizens of Warlock to rid them of an unruly gang; meanwhile a repentant member of the bunch becomes deputy sheriff (Richard Widmark), which creates friction. Anthony Quinn plays the formers faithful sidekick.

    Warlock (1959) is an adult Western cut from the same dramatic cloth as similar late 50s/early 60s Westerns like Man of the West (1958). The mature and psychological script was based on Oakley Halls novel, which was a fictionalization of the OK Corral legends, which is why its not too difficult to read Earp/Holliday into the Fonda/Quinn characters and Abe M...

    February 21, 2019

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