- Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino, James Whitmore
- Directors: Don Siegel
- Writers: Abraham Polonsky, Howard Rodman, Richard Dougherty
- Producers: Frank P. Rosenberg
- Language English
- Classification: 12
- Studio: 4 Front
- VHS Release Date: 19 Jun 2000
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004TIYU
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,192 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
If you like your thrillers lean and mean then this is a film for you.
Two cops with a contrasting way of doing there job(in persuit of the same deranged killer ) an old cinema cliche but with actors of the calabar of Fonda and Widmark and belivable dilouge and what feels like an authentic script Madigan works.
Don Sigel directs in what appears to be a warm up for Dirty Harry a taut Thriller
about a hard boiled mavrick detective (Widmakr) and his unemphatic rigid boss (Fonda) who is guided as much by his displine to buracratic sytems and correct procedure as his iretent Madigan is by gut instinct and ready use of his fist's.
I woouldn't put money that Fonda and Widmark are together in a film for the first time(I'm sure they made some western together) but when these two clash on screen it really is something and it's there verbal battles which make the film a stand out for this viewer. The climax is shocking.
A good comercal action film if you like'd Bullit Copland Serpico and Dirty Harry this ought to be your ticket. An entertaining but non the less riveting little Cop opera.
Two cops with a contrasting way of doing there job(in persuit of the same deranged killer ) an old cinema cliche but with actors of the calabar of Fonda and Widmark and belivable dilouge and what feels like an authentic script Madigan works.
Don Sigel directs in what appears to be a warm up for Dirty Harry a taut Thriller
about a hard boiled mavrick detective (Widmakr) and his unemphatic rigid boss (Fonda) who is guided as much by his displine to buracratic sytems and correct procedure as his iretent Madigan is by gut instinct and ready use of his fist's.
I woouldn't put money that Fonda and Widmark are together in a film for the first time(I'm sure they made some western together) but when these two clash on screen it really is something and it's there verbal battles which make the film a stand out for this viewer. The climax is shocking.
A good comercal action film if you like'd Bullit Copland Serpico and Dirty Harry this ought to be your ticket. An entertaining but non the less riveting little Cop opera.
Format:DVD
I saw Madigan in the the cinema when it was first released and found it to be a great thriller and better than your average cop thriller we had seen up to then.
A hard nosed cop Madigan (Widmark) and his partner Rocky Bonarro (Guardino) are on the trail of a psycho killer played brilliantly by Steve Inhat. Although the main plot is always there we are shown how police commissioner (Fonda) runs his police force...straight by the book, no nonsense here and no exceptions. That is until his best friend the Chief of Police (James Whitmore) finds himself in a corruption scandal. These two men have been friends all their lives, so whats the 'no nonsense' commissioner gonna do now?
Back to Dan Madigan, his marriage is falling apart, because he is so busy trying to nail his psycho killer. Dan's wife (Inger Stevens) cannot understand her husband being away so long but loves 'ol Danny in spite of it all.
The movie moves at a reasonable pace so as to keep the viewer interested, and we have a fly on the wall look at some of the other characters that eventually come Madigans way as The movie comes to an unexpected bloody end.
Apart from Harry Guardino watch out for other Don Siegel regulars such as Don Stroud and Susan Clark who featured in his later films, Coogans Bluff and the Dirty Harry series.
I really enjoyed this movie being as it was for 1968, and I believe it paved the way for future cop thrillers both on screen and T.V.
and its available through Amazon on dvd ....go get it!
A hard nosed cop Madigan (Widmark) and his partner Rocky Bonarro (Guardino) are on the trail of a psycho killer played brilliantly by Steve Inhat. Although the main plot is always there we are shown how police commissioner (Fonda) runs his police force...straight by the book, no nonsense here and no exceptions. That is until his best friend the Chief of Police (James Whitmore) finds himself in a corruption scandal. These two men have been friends all their lives, so whats the 'no nonsense' commissioner gonna do now?
Back to Dan Madigan, his marriage is falling apart, because he is so busy trying to nail his psycho killer. Dan's wife (Inger Stevens) cannot understand her husband being away so long but loves 'ol Danny in spite of it all.
The movie moves at a reasonable pace so as to keep the viewer interested, and we have a fly on the wall look at some of the other characters that eventually come Madigans way as The movie comes to an unexpected bloody end.
Apart from Harry Guardino watch out for other Don Siegel regulars such as Don Stroud and Susan Clark who featured in his later films, Coogans Bluff and the Dirty Harry series.
I really enjoyed this movie being as it was for 1968, and I believe it paved the way for future cop thrillers both on screen and T.V.
and its available through Amazon on dvd ....go get it!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Madigan is well directed and has two great leads, Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark. What makes Madigan different from normal cop films is it follows the commissioner and also the cop on the street and troubles faced by both. This isn't as good as Don Seigel's Dirty Harry but this still is a very good cop film. This UK release has a great transfer and is full screen as opposed to the terrible small letter boxed USA import.
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