A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
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Nate H. parašė atsiliepimą apie Warlock (1959)
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How Warlock flew under my radar is beyond me. As a fan of Westerns, it is still a mystery to me why I had never heard of this gem before I saw it available for streaming on Netflix. The movie begins similar to many Westerns: An isolated town is constantly harassed by a gang of outlaws who have grown accustomed to having free reign with little law in the area to stop them. A group of townsfolk decide to make a town marshal out of a gun for hire (Henry Fonda) who brings along his right hand man (Anthony Quinn). Whereas Fonda has a checkered past of his own, Quinn is a cold blooded killer of which the town has not seen the likes of. It’s a shaky pact that the town gives birth to, further hindered by a county sheriff who declares the two men to be operating outside the boundaries of the law. Then, when a former crony of the outlaws (Richard Widmark) is officially deputized by the sheriff to bring order, the town’s increasingly volatile power structure primes for implosion. Warlock is one of those movies where the line between protagonist and antagonist is blurred and the role of good guy and bad guy changes like a game of musical chairs. Definitely give it a watch if you are fan of the genre.
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