The
Secret Ways [1961] [DVD]Richard Widmark
(actor) Sonja Ziemann (actor)
Format: all-region dvd (worldwide) Runtime: 112
min Quality: Digital / ws / bw
A Cold War drama with the always
watchable Richard Widmark as an American soldier of fortune helping a noted
Hungarian intellectual and anti-communist escape from behind the Iron
Curtain.
The tone of The Secret Ways wavers between realism and satire,
the result of a dispute between Widmark and director Phil Karlson, a B-movie
specialist who had just turned down Dr No.
I told Widmark I wanted
to do it as a James Bond, said Karlson, but he hadn't heard of
Bond. I said, 'If we do this tongue-in-cheek we'll be the first ones.' He said,
'No, I don't want to do it that way.' We had a big fight and I never finished
the picture. |