Filmography

You can only stand in awe and look at the sheer number of films Widmark made.  Good grief, that man kept busy.  The amount of energy he must have had ... I know Hollywood really churned them out in the early days, but just look at some of these dates; even allowing for production and editing and all the other stuff that goes on, he must have been making two or three per year, finishing one off and going to learn the lines for the next.  Sometimes they all bunched up and he had three or four films out in one year - just look at the early 1950s.  It's impossible to think of that happening now.  But 62 films - plus all the other TV and documentary work - that's nothing for us to grumble at! 

Critically speaking, his best stuff seems to be from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, but he was always good, even if the films he was in ... weren't.  I give you Murder on the Orient Express as a shining example.  But then it was the 1970s.  Arty dramas, film noir and even Westerns had had their day, and it was over to action packed adventure or horror films.  C'est la vie.

Films in bold are ones I've watched and covered in the 'genre' pages.   

Kiss of Death (1947)

The Street with no Name (1948)

Road House (1948)

Yellow Sky (1948)

Down to the sea in ships (1949)

Slattery’s Hurricane (1949)

Night and the City (1950)

Panic in the Streets (1950)

No Way Out (1950)

Halls of Montezuma (1950)

The Frogmen (1951)

Red Skies of Montana (1952) 

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

O. Henry’s Full House (1952)

My Pal Gus (1952)

Destination Gobi (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)

Take the High Ground! (1953)

Hell and High Water (1954) 

Garden of Evil (1954)

Broken Lance (1954)

A Prize of Gold (1955)

The Cobweb (1955)

Backlash (1956)

Run for the Sun (1956)

The Last Wagon (1956)

Saint Joan (1957)

Time Limit (1957)

The Law and Jake Wade (1958)

The Tunnel of Love (1958)

The Trap (1959)

Warlock (1959)

The Alamo (1960)

The Secret Ways (1961)

Two Rode Together (1961)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

How the West was Won (1962)

The Long Ships (1964)

Flight from Ashiya (1964)

Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

The Bedford Incident (1965)

Alvarez Kelly (1966)

The Way West (1967)

Madigan (1968)

A Talent for Loving (1969)

Death of a Gunfighter (1969)

The Moonshine War (1970)

When the Legends Die (1972)

Brock's Last Case (1973)

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
The Sell Out (1976) 

Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)

The Domino Principle (1977)

Rollercoaster (1977)

Coma (1978)

The Swarm (1978)

Bear Island (1979)

National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (1982)

Hanky Panky (1982)

Who Dares Wins (1982)

Against All Odds (1984)

True Colors (1991)