opinion: What to expect a noir with Victor Mature as top billed name? A good and entertaining filme-noir for a Saturday afternoon 🙂 Body count: only 4. A noir in Technicolor, wide screen, small town life and violence the way they never expected. Recommended;

rating: 3,0 of 5;
when latest: August 3rd 2016;
where:  S. Paulo, Brazil;


quotes: “… we can´t change! Not us. You’re an alcoholic and I´m a tramp …”;

director: Richard Fleischer;
starring: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally;
country:  USA;
release date: April 2nd 1955;
run time: 90 min;
genre:  film-noir, thriller, drama, crime;

storyline: A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. A father looking for pride in his son’s eyes, a timid clerk who is a peeping tom by night, a man striving to rewin his wife’s love, an Amish farmer faced with viciousness, and a proper older woman turned thief, all find themselves entangled with the bank robbers as a peaceful weekend turns violent;;

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Violent Saturday (1955)
Violent Saturday (1955)

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