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Director:
Don Siegel
Writers:
Richard Dougherty (novel)
Abraham Polonsky (screenplay)
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Release Date:
March 1968 (Austria) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
"If Detective Madigan kept his eyes on the killer instead of the broad..." more
Plot:
Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC... more | full synopsis
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most realistic gunfight ever more (32 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Richard Widmark ... Det. Daniel Madigan

Henry Fonda ... Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

Inger Stevens ... Julia Madigan
Harry Guardino ... Det. Rocco Bonaro
James Whitmore ... Chief Insp. Charles Kane
Susan Clark ... Tricia Bentley
Michael Dunn ... Midget Castiglione
Steve Ihnat ... Barney Benesch
Don Stroud ... Hughie
Sheree North ... Jonesy
Warren Stevens ... Capt. Ben Williams
Raymond St. Jacques ... Dr. Taylor
Bert Freed ... Chief of Detectives Hap Lynch
Harry Bellaver ... Mickey Dunn
Frank Marth ... Lt. James Price
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Additional Details

Runtime:
101 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

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10 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
most realistic gunfight ever, 1 August 1999
Author: SquirePM from Birmingham, Alabama

Madigan is memorable for its final, climactic gunfight. This is the closest the cinematic art will ever come to reality unless someone actually captures a real life up-close-and-nasty gunfight on film. Widmark and Guardino vs. Steve Ihnat in about 4 seconds of absolute mayhem, with tragic results.

By the way, I saw this film in an Army hospital in 1969, while recovering from being wounded in Vietnam. It was projected on a bedsheet hung in the middle of a ward. The image showed through clearly, so I (and half the audience) watched it from the back side of the sheet; all lefts and rights were reversed!

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