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Bookmark this pageViolent Saturday (1955)
Director: Richard Fleischer
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From Time Out Film Guide
A competent bank job movie that takes place in the widescreen DeLuxe Color burning light of the Midwest noonday sun, without a shadow in sight. Any movie which features Mature, Borgnine and Marvin has to be some kind of primer in slobdom; but in fact Borgnine plays a religious fundamentalist farmer, and hero Mature soon becomes marginal when up against Marvin's minimal performance as a loose-lipped killer with a permanent head cold. Growling that women and children 'make me nervous', he can make his continual inhalation of benzedrine look like deep degeneracy. When a boy knocks the nasal spray out of his hand, he treads all over the kid's fingers. Sadly, Fleischer takes attention away from the action and into a moral battleground back at the farm, but Borgnine finally gets his pitchfork into Marvin's back. The devil you know...Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Fleischer
Producer: Buddy Adler
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin, Sylvia Sidney, Ernest Borgnine, Tommy Noonan, J Carrol Naish full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 91 mins
US Release: Apr 1 1955
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