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Madigan

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Madigan (TV Miniseries)

Original title

Madigan

Year

1968

Running time

101 min.

Country

United States

Director

Don Siegel

Screenwriter

Abraham Polonsky, Howard Rodman. Novel: Richard Dougherty

Cast

Music

Don Costa

Cinematography

Russell Metty

Producer

Universal Pictures

Genre

Action | Cop Movies. Crime. Neo-noir

Synopsis

Adapted from Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, MADIGAN stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warmup for Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro (Harry Guardino), Madigan raids the apartment of criminal Barney Benesch (Steve Ihnat), but when both cops are briefly frozen by the sight of the hood's naked girlfriend, Benesch has time to grab their guns and make his escape. Commissioner Anthony X. Russell calls the cops on the carpet when it's learned that Benesch was wanted for homicide.This is only one among many problems for Russell, who is being dumped by his mistress, Tricia Bentley (Susan Clark), subjected to claims of police brutality by minister Dr. Taylor (Raymond St. Jacques), and forced to confront the corruption of Chief Inspector Kane (James Whitmore). Learning that Madigan and Bonaro had been working outside their own precinct, Russell angrily orders the pair to find Benesch within the next 72 hours. Bookie Midget Castiglione (Michael Dunne) puts the detectives in touch with Hughie (Don Stroud), one of the hood's pimps, and he delivers the goods. This is an excellent, action-packed, near-documentary account of the quotidian details of big-city police work, boasting an extraordinary supporting cast.

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"This notion that an instrument need not necessarily be perfect to perform properly is, perhaps, a valid one, but, if so, it's the only thing that is in Madigan, which is executed on the level of a TV soap opera."

Baltimore Sun
"A substantial achievement, an ostensible action picture cloaking a meditative character piece, and its innate quality of moral sordidness has stayed with genre forever since."

Stuart Collier: Slant

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