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Violent Saturday (1955)
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April 1955 (USA) morePlot:
A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
"Shove 'em in your kisser, son...now go over there and suck on 'em." moreCast
(Credited cast)| Victor Mature | ... | Shelley Martin | |
| Richard Egan | ... | Boyd Fairchild | |
| Stephen McNally | ... | Harper (bank robber) | |
| Virginia Leith | ... | Linda Sherman | |
| Tommy Noonan | ... | Harry Reeves, Bank Manager | |
| Lee Marvin | ... | Dill, Bank Robber | |
| Margaret Hayes | ... | Mrs. Emily Fairchild | |
| J. Carrol Naish | ... | Chapman, Bank Robber | |
| Sylvia Sidney | ... | Elsie Braden | |
| Ernest Borgnine | ... | Stadt, Amish Farmer | |
| Dorothy Patrick | ... | Helen Martin | |
| Billy Chapin | ... | Steve Martin | |
| Brad Dexter | ... | Gil Clayton | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Virginia Carroll | ... | Carol, Martin's Secretary | |
| Ann Morrison | ... | Mrs. Martha Stadt | |
| Harry Seymour | ... | Train Conductor | |
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Mono (Western Electric Recording) (optical prints) | 4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Recording) (magnetic prints)Filming Locations:
Bisbee, Arizona, USAFun Stuff
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Bobby Martin: [while bank is being robbed] Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!Chapman, Bank Robber: C'mere kid. C'mere!
[offers candy]
Chapman, Bank Robber: Stick these in your kisser and go suck on 'em. Now go back to your mother.
Chapman, Bank Robber: Thank you!
Chapman, Bank Robber: You're welcome.
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Combination crime-thriller and soap opera, presumably a contract picture from Fox with many familiar faces (and Ernest Borgnine inexplicably cast as an Amish farmer!), turns out to be a pretty exciting movie. Three hoods plot to stick up a small town bank; meanwhile, hormones are boiling over at the new copper plant, with the foreman's son drinking himself into a stupor while his cheating wife runs around on the golf course (she tells him, "You're an alcoholic...and I'm a tramp!"). There's also a married banker who lusts after a shapely new nurse, a librarian with sticky fingers, and Victor Mature as a graduate whose oldest child is ashamed that his father never served his country. Director Richard Fleischer sets up the pieces of this story very carefully, almost sluggishly, yet after about an hour of exposition the plot really starts cooking. There are some strong images here, and vivid cinematography by Charles G. Clarke (with excellent location shooting in Bisbee, Arizona and terrific usage of De Luxe color stock). The ensemble cast works admirably together, no one person upstaging the other, however crooked Lee Marvin makes a fantastic entrance stepping on a child's hand in the street! Gripping, tense, and surprisingly well-written, with Richard Egan getting an emotional monologue at the end about the unfairness of death. An injured Amish child is forgotten about in the rush of excitement, and Borgnine in a Lincoln beard strains credibility, but the technical aspects and direction of the film are top-notch. *** from ****