That's one hell of a piece at Lucy's throat.
I associated Widmark so thoroughly with the ineffective shnook from Night and the City that it's kind of strange to see him be competent or (if I were actually to watch Kiss of Death, I assume) sinister.
That's not a very good picture of Sinatra.
"Hey girl. I'd be glad to visit your mother."
4: Try Bedford Incident (sort of)
Actually, a lot of Widmark's 50s and 60s roles are as the competent leader, he was typecast.
Two more things about Widmark
1) I am amazed and curious about how quickly talent or charisma seems to be recognized by the professionals. Widmark went very quickly to leading man, top-billed, and as I have watched a lot of movies, it really isn't that often that a future star is tenth billed in more than a couple. Costner was horrible in his first b-movies, but somebody saw something. They are sometimes wrong, but they see it very early.
2) Yeah, Widmark played the "Captain" or types like it in a whole series of 50s movies. Don't believe actors when they tell you they can play anything. The leader of men, or competent commander is not that easy to do, and I don't remember Grant or Stewart doing it very often. I think a quality of self-effacement is needed. Damian Lewis comes to mind.
Widmark was somehow reassuring in an age of anxiety. I grew up loving the guy
There's also virulent racist Widmark from No Way Out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_and_High_Water_(film)
Didn't he push his crippled wheelchair-bound mother down the stairs in one movie?
Anyway, if you watch "The Man in the High Castle," you will find one of the actors doing the world's worst evil-Richard Widmark impression. He even looks a lot like Widmark.
He's about to do just that in the still.
[Internet MRA asshole joke], milady.
I had no idea who Widmatk was, but this picture is wonderful.
That comment is very gratifying to me, Dr. Robot.
Widmark is gratifyingly creepish in Road House NO THE OTHER ONE NOT PATRICK SWAYZE WHY DOES EVERYONE SAY THAT.
Instead of a card with a smiley face at one end and a frowny face at the other, they should label the highest level "even James Dalton would feel this."