Violent Saturday

1955Movie⏱️ 1h 30mApproved

CrimeDramaFilm-NoirThriller

⭐ 6.9

IMDB Rating

3,167 votes

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

Stars

Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally

Release Date

April 20, 1955

Language

English

Country

United States

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Reviews

📋 2.8K

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🎭 Top Cast

Victor Mature

as Shelley Martin

Richard Egan

as Boyd Fairchild

Stephen McNally

as Harper (bank robber)

Virginia Leith

as Linda Sherman

Tommy Noonan

as Harry Reeves, Bank Manager

Lee Marvin

as Dill, Bank Robber

Margaret Hayes

as Mrs. Emily Fairchild

J. Carrol Naish

as Chapman, Bank Robber

Sylvia Sidney

as Elsie Braden

Ernest Borgnine

as Stadt, Amish Farmer

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

2.55 : 1

Color

Filming Location

Lowell, Arizona, USA

Production

Twentieth Century Fox

🏷️ Keywords

bank robberbank robberybankheisthero worship

🎯 Categories

Film NoirCrimeDramaThriller

⭐ Featured Review

"Stick 'em in your kisser, son...now go over there and suck on 'em."

by moonspinner55 • 2009-03-14

7/10

"Combination crime-drama 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 where the foreman's son is drinking himself into a stupor while his cheating wife runs around on the golf course ("You're an alcoholic," she tells him, "and I'm a tramp!"). There's also a married banker who lusts after a shapely nurse, a librari..."