Madigan

Introducing Henry Fonda as New York police commissioner Russell (title character of the original novel by journalist, playwright and polymath Richard Dougherty), then by voice and phone call James Whitmore as his deputy Kane, and Susan Clark, seems to not be his wife, in director Don Siegel’s Madigan, 1968.

Director Don Siegel’s opening at Park Ave. and East 98th, cops Richard Widmark (title character) and Harry Guardino climb steps to meet crook Benesch (Steve Ihnat), with squeeze Tonia Machinga, from a Richard Dougherty novel, screenplay by Henri Simoun and Abraham Polonsky, in Madigan, 1968.

Home to the suburbs midday after a bad overnight shift during which a gangster escaped with his gun, New York police detective Richard Widmark (title character) does what amounts to a portrait of his marriage with Inger Stevens, Don Siegel directing, in Madigan, 1968.