Storyline Warlock 1959
Warlock is a 1959 western film directed by Edward Dmytryk
and starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Richard Widmark, and Dorothy Malone.
It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by American author Oakley
Hall.
Fonda portrays Clay Blaisedell, a freelance marshal in the
fictional town of Warlock with implacable methods of dealing with
troublemakers. The film has a subplot centering around Blaisedell's club-footed
assistant, Tom Morgan. Content to stay in the background, Morgan 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. A woman
Morgan rejected in favor of his life as a sidekick soon arrives and seeks
vengeance by setting the townsfolk against Blaisedell. Far from asserting
himself, the marshal plans to quit and get married, much to Morgan's disgust. Morgan
remonstrates that his skill as a gunman is far superior to his conventionally
heroic friend's, and is the only thing that has been keeping the honorable
Blaisedell alive. Blaisedell attempts to stop a spurned Morgan running amok,
and with ulterior motives Morgan challenges Blaisedell to a duel in front of
the watching town.
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The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading
the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal.
When Blaisdell appears, he is accompanied by his friend Tom Morgan, a
club-footed gambler who is unusually protective of Blaisdell's life and
reputation. However, Johnny Gannon, one of the thugs who has reformed,
volunteered to accept the post of official deputy sheriff in rivalry to Blaisdell;
and a woman arrives in town accusing Blaisdell and Morgan of having murdered
her fiancé. The stage is set for a complex set of moral and personal conflicts.
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Director: Edward Dmytryk
Writers: Robert Alan Aurthur (screenplay), Oakley Hall
(novel)
Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
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