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* MADIGAN
(Universal) Technicolor-Techniscope — 101 mins. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino, James Whitmore, Susan Clark, Michael Dunn, Steve Ihnat.
The screen has never lacked good detective stories, one of the best was appropriately titled DETECTIVE STORY with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker which producer-director William Wyler excitingly brought to life some 17 years ago. MADIGAN follows in this tradition with a walloping well photographed and performed thriller. The on=location New York shooting, both filmic and firing, is again responsible for much of its realisticlooking atmosphere. Three established exponents of the nononsense school of acting, Widmark, Whitmore and Fonda, are on the side of law and order and they lend an air of credibility to some of the script’s cliches. Director Don Siegel keeps the action and dialogue continuously on the move and with his camera picks up some fine, colorful sites and sights. Mr. Siegel also manages to make the most of many throw-away punch lines. Altogether a film to excite and enjoy.
* NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY
(Paramount) 108 mins. Technicolor. Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton, Michael Dunn.
Rod Steiger, Academy Award winner as Best Actor of 1967, will no doubt be nominated again next year for his role, or more correctly, roles, in NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. As a mom-fixated murder of middle-aged ladies, he achieves some stunning impersonations, although not all of them successful. George Segal as the stalking and talking detective is also effective in a much less colorful role. Lee Remick displays her physical charms most seductively but Eileen Heckart as the stereotyped Jewish mother of Mr. Segal is an embarassment. How anyone in their right mind could entrust this role with all its Jewish cliches and stock phraseology to someone like Miss Heckart is beyond reasoning. No doubt a Molly Picon would have brought at least a semblance of semitic sense to all that phony prattle. And this written by a Jewish author yet! Tsk tsk! Notwithstanding this one shortcoming NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY is still worth a viewing.
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