Pickup on South Street (1953)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone
Director: Samuel Fuller
The Secret Ways (1961)
Adventure | History | Mystery | Thriller
During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Regnier, Walter Rilla, Senta Berger, Howard Vernon
Director: Phil Karlson, Richard Widmark
Warlock (1959)
Romance | Western
A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Wallace Ford
Director: Edward Dmytryk
No Way Out (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A black doctor is assigned to treat two white racist suspects who are brothers, and when one dies it causes tension that could start a race riot.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith, Harry Bellaver, Stanley Ridges, Dots Johnson
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Night and the City (1950)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Sport | Thriller
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom
Director: Jules Dassin
The Long Ships (1964)
Adventure
A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices," a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oskar Homolka, Edward Judd
Director: Jack Cardiff
The Domino Principle (1977)
Drama | Thriller
Tucker is serving a prison sentence for murder. A secret agency helps him to escape so that he can murder a person in a latin-American country. But Tucker only wants to escape, not to kill somebody.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach
Director: Stanley Kramer
The Last Wagon (1956)
Adventure | Drama | Western
Adopted by the Comanche. Accused by the white man. On the road to his murder trial, Comanche Todd is a soul without hope. But when a band of savage Apaches attacks his wagon train, leaving only a few teenaged survivors, he must choose between the freedom that fortune has handed him, and delivering the youths safely home. With a death sentence hanging over his head, will he risk losing his own life in order to save theirs?
Starring: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig, Nick Adams, Carl Benton Reid
Director: Delmer Daves
Destination Gobi (1953)
Adventure | Drama | War
Navy weathermen are forced to accept the help of Mongol nomads in the Gobi desert during World War II, when their craft comes under fire from Japanese attack.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter, Murvyn Vye, Darryl Hickman, Martin Milner
Director: Robert Wise
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Drama | History | War
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell
Director: Stanley Kramer
True Colors (1991)
Drama
"True Colors" tells of two male law school student who are best friends with contrasting integrity which leads to conflict. Spader plays straight man to Cusack's fast-track-to-success character who uses manipulation and ruthlessness on his way to a congressional seat.
Starring: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark, Dina Merrill
Director: Herbert Ross
Two Rode Together (1961)
Western
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal, Andy Devine, John McIntire
Director: John Ford
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Douglas, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
Director: Elia Kazan
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Drama | History | Western
When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in their barren desert reserve, the starving Indians have taken more abuse than it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles journey back to their ancestral hunting grounds. US Cavalry Capt. Thomas Archer is charged with their retrieval, but during the hunt grows to respect their noble courage, and decides to help them.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo
Director: John Ford
Yellow Sky (1948)
Crime | Western
A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town, only to discover an old prospector and his granddaughter living there. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader, Stretch, falls for the granddaughter, which sets off a showdown between the entire gang.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, James Barton
Director: William A. Wellman
The Trap (1959)
Crime | Drama
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes…
Starring: Richard Widmark, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise, Lee J. Cobb, Carl Benton Reid, Lorne Greene
Director: Norman Panama
The Way West (1967)
Adventure | Western
In 1843 a former U.S. senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Sally Field
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Garden of Evil (1954)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
Three Americans are headed by ship around the cape to the California gold fields when they are put ashore for several weeks in a sleepy little Mexican village. While there, they are offered the job of following a lady deep into the indian infested mountains of Mexico to rescue the ladies husband trapped by a cave-in at their gold mine. For the job they are promised two thousand dollars each. While each contemplates their own chances for getting the lady and /or the gold mine, if they can survive to enjoy it.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Director: Henry Hathaway
Who Dares Wins / The Final Option (1982)
Action | Thriller
A band of desperate terrorists take over the American ambassador's home in London, and their violence sets into motion a chain of events that could lead to nuclear war.
Starring: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Edward Woodward, Robert Webber
Director: Ian Sharp
Coma (1978)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
sAfter one of her patients goes into a coma after a routine operation, Dr. Susan Wheeler investigates. She learns that several otherwise healthy patients have met the same fate and then been sent away to a mysterious institute. But when she tells her doctor boyfriend about what she has found, he finds the story hard to believe.
Starring: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark
Director: Michael Crichton
