Madigan (1968)

Directed by

Don Siegel

Genre

drama film, action film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 89 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A New York City police detective is suspended for 72 hours to find a suspect who got away. He struggles with the pressure from his boss and the clock as he hunts the fugitive through the city's streets.

tensegrittyatmosphericnoirishstoicurgentbleakgrounded

What happens

Madigan is a 1968 American neo-noir crime drama thriller film directed by Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel) and starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Inger Stevens. The screenplay—originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday—was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Howard Rodman (credited here under the pseudonym Henri Simoun) and Abraham Polonsky. It was based on the 1962 novel The Commissioner by Richard Dougherty, a former New York bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times who had served in the 1950s as a deputy New York City police commissioner for community relations. Siegel was a genre director known at the time for taut action films like The Lineup (1958) and Hell Is for Heroes (1962) as well as the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). He later directed five films starring Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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