Something always bothered me about the characters Widmark played...not that he didn't do it well...I just found his characters or his personal style or something generally not likeable in some way (whether or not the character was meant to be sympathized with by the audience). I have no rational explanation or justification for it. Perhaps he reminded me of someone I'd had a bad experience with as a kid or something. Who knows? I felt the same way about Ernest Borgnine.

"The Bedford Incident" was one film that I remember well. It was a real nail-biter. Widmark played the obsessive captain of the ship very effectively.