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Richard Widmark: Robert Mitchum
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"When, in his screen debut in Kiss of Death, Richard Widmark giggled as he pushed an old lady in a wheelchair down the stairs, 20th Century-Fox knew it had a star on its books. In the same vein, this follow-up casts him as a psychotic hypochondriac, always snorting on an inhaler and beating his wife. Not many screen villains looked nastier than Widmark in those days (and only Robert Mitchum was more menacing), his thin-lipped mouth and bony face epitomising the look of a man with antisocial tendencies. FBI agent Mark Stevens is the nominal hero of this noirish thriller, but he's no match for Widmark, even though the script demands that justice must be seen to be done."
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VHS, Not Rated, 113 minutes, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Richard Widmark leads an all-star cast of leathernecks - including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb, into battle on a heavily-fortified enemy island. Their objective is a Japanese rocket site in the island's interior, and this action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles. In the process, the senior officer (Widmark) is transformed from a former school teacher into a combat-hardened leader, and his disparate squad of men is forged into a cohesive fighting unit.
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Widmark co-starred with two other film legends, Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum, in the 1967 film The Way West. A young Sally Field made her motion picture debut in that movie. (edit)
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Widmark ended his tenure at Fox with two 1954 westerns: Garden of Evil (with Gary Cooper & Susan Hayward) and Broken Lance (with Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner). He then became a freelance actor, with major lulls in his career.
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During the course of the interview Widmark professes to being embarrassed by the whole mechanics of his profession. The suggestion that acting is not a worthy pursuit for a man to follow is an idea expressed not only by Widmark, but ... by Marlon Brando, by Robert Mitchum and if De Niro hasn’t said it by now, he will eventually.
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