Violent Saturday

1955
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1h 30m

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Victor Mature and Virginia Leith in Violent Saturday (1955)

Three hoodlums carefully case a small town while planning to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday. On Saturday, things turn violent and deadly.Three hoodlums carefully case a small town while planning to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday. On Saturday, things turn violent and deadly.Three hoodlums carefully case a small town while planning to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday. On Saturday, things turn violent and deadly.

Director
- Richard Fleischer
Writers
- Sydney Boehm
- William L. Heath
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6.9/10

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Director
- Richard Fleischer
Writers
- Sydney Boehm
- William L. Heath
Stars

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Trivia
The film's premiere was planned for Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an Amish community, but the town's prudish mayor, Kendig Bare, refused to permit the screening because he considered the film too violent and sexy.

Goofs
The car is started and put into gear so that it will crash through the barn door after which the engine stalls but, while it's still in gear, Stadt and Martin are able to easily push it out.

Quotes
Mrs. Emily Fairchild: Would you like me to have you thrown out?
Linda Sherman: Why don't you get mad enough to try it. All I want is an excuse to pull that hair right out of your stupid head.
[Mrs. Emily Fairchild looks away]
Linda Sherman: Guess you don't have the guts.

Connections
Edited into Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965)

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7/10

Ahead of its time

Thanks to FXM we can now see the widescreen version of Violent Saturday. Its a terrific, tense crime drama that must have been somewhat controversial in 1955. Certainly the onscreen violence is stronger than anything else I've seen from the period, except possibly Richard Widmark shoving the wheelchair down the stairs in Kiss of Death. There are definitely some hints of the future Hollywood of Sam Peckinpah--the sadistic Lee Marvin grinding a little boys hand into the ground, and a bearded Ernest Borgnine using a pitchfork on Lee towards the end of the film. Well worth catching.