Richard Widmark:
Playing the Villain
Monday nights at the Parkway
4814 Chicago Ave S : all shows at 7:30pm
All tickets are $5, Take-Up discount cards are $20.
7/28 Kiss Of Death (1947) 98min 1.37
dir Henry Hathaway starring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy
Widmark's film debut as the giggling killer Tommy Udo. "You know what I do to squealers? I let 'em have it in the belly, so they can roll around for a long time thinkin' it over."
8/4 Slattery's Hurricane (1949) 87min 1.37
dir André De Toth starring Veronica Lake
Widmark as pilot with a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused.
8/11 Panic in the Streets (1950) 96min 1.37
dir Elia Kazan starring Jack Palance, Zero Mostel
Widmark plays a doctor in New Orleans with only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with bubonic plague.
8/18 Yellow Sky (1948) 98min 1.37
dir William Wellman starring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Harry Morgan
Widmark's first western, an adaptation of The Tempest. Widmark plays Dude, menacing people with his mirthless smile and insinuating singsong.
8/25 Don't Bother to Knock (1952) 76min 1.37
dir Roy Ward Baker starring Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Elisha Cook Jr.
Widmark is a womanizing heel who talks his way into Marilyn Monroe's hotel room for a ''date", only to discover she's psychotic and there's no way out.
Born in Sunrise, Minnesota, in 1914, Mr. Widmark appeared in the better part of 100 movies over a career that spanned 50 years. His big break came with his notorious debut in 1947 as a cackling maniac who pushes an old woman in a wheelchair down a huge flight of stairs to her death in Kiss Of Death. ''SELL RICHARD WIDMARK!'' read the publicity manual that an alert 20th Century Fox sent to theater owners, advising them to have a local printer make up ''Wanted'' posters for the actor.
Playing the Villain
Monday nights at the Parkway
4814 Chicago Ave S : all shows at 7:30pm
All tickets are $5, Take-Up discount cards are $20.
7/28 Kiss Of Death (1947) 98min 1.37
dir Henry Hathaway starring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy
Widmark's film debut as the giggling killer Tommy Udo. "You know what I do to squealers? I let 'em have it in the belly, so they can roll around for a long time thinkin' it over."
8/4 Slattery's Hurricane (1949) 87min 1.37
dir André De Toth starring Veronica Lake
Widmark as pilot with a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused.
8/11 Panic in the Streets (1950) 96min 1.37
dir Elia Kazan starring Jack Palance, Zero Mostel
Widmark plays a doctor in New Orleans with only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with bubonic plague.
8/18 Yellow Sky (1948) 98min 1.37
dir William Wellman starring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Harry Morgan
Widmark's first western, an adaptation of The Tempest. Widmark plays Dude, menacing people with his mirthless smile and insinuating singsong.
8/25 Don't Bother to Knock (1952) 76min 1.37
dir Roy Ward Baker starring Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Elisha Cook Jr.
Widmark is a womanizing heel who talks his way into Marilyn Monroe's hotel room for a ''date", only to discover she's psychotic and there's no way out.
Born in Sunrise, Minnesota, in 1914, Mr. Widmark appeared in the better part of 100 movies over a career that spanned 50 years. His big break came with his notorious debut in 1947 as a cackling maniac who pushes an old woman in a wheelchair down a huge flight of stairs to her death in Kiss Of Death. ''SELL RICHARD WIDMARK!'' read the publicity manual that an alert 20th Century Fox sent to theater owners, advising them to have a local printer make up ''Wanted'' posters for the actor.
