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Violent Saturday is a 1955 American CinemaScope crime film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Victor Mature, Richard Egan and Stephen McNally. Set in a fictional mining town in Arizona, the film depicts the planning of a bank robbery as the nexus in the personal lives of several townspeople. Filmed on location in Bisbee, Arizona, the ...
Violent Saturday Released Apr 20, 1955 1h 31m Crime Drama List 80% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 69% Audience Score 100+ Ratings For the residents of a small mining town, the weekend begins like any...
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- Victor Mature
- Richard Fleischer
- Crime, Drama
Violent Saturday: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith. Three hoodlums carefully case a small town while planning to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday. On Saturday, things turn violent and deadly.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Richard Fleischer
- 1955-04-20
71 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 7/10. Beneath The Surface. rabrenner 4 March 2008. Three hoodlums plot to rob a bank in a small town. But the town has secrets of its own: The bank president is a Peeping Tom. The librarian is a petty thief.
Violent Saturday is, on the one hand, an unusual film noir because of its focus on presenting different kinds of masculinity. On the other hand, in the context of the Cold War, its choice of the character who best represents masculinity is unsurprising. Main Credits. Director: Richard Fleischer.
Jul 30, 2014 · Such is the case in Richard Fleischer’s 1955 CinemaScope feature, Violent Saturday – a unique combination of film noir and Technicolor melodrama (as adapted from William L. Heath’s novel of the same name) that somehow managed to offend some critics upon its initial release over the amount of violence depicted in the film.
Film Review. Violent Saturday is a pretty good example of what can happen when two wildly contrasting genres are brought together without any real attempt to meld them into a coherent whole.
