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    Violent Saturday (1955)

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    One Friday in summer, three gunmen – Chapman (J. Carrol Naish), Dill (Lee Marvin) and Harper (Stephen McNally) – arrive in the small copper mining town of Bradenville with a well-devised plan for robbing the local bank.

    In the town itself, many of its prominent citizens are experiencing crises of one kind or another in their lives, and as the bank robbery nears, a web of human interest weaves around Peeping Tom bank manager Harry Reeves (Tommy Noonan); pretty nurse Linda Sherman (Virginia Leith); light-fingered librarian Elsie Braden (Sylvia Sidney); Shelley Martin (Victor Mature), a businessman suspected of cowardice; alcoholic mine heir Boyd Fairchild (Richard Egan) and his unfaithful wife Emily (Margaret Hayes).

    Their destinies collide in the violence during and following the raid.

    In a final, savage and yet majestic scene Borgnine and Marvin represent the extreme moralities and immoralities of violence.

    Shelley Martin
    Victor Mature
    Boyd Fairchild
    Richard Egan
    Harper 
    Stephen McNally
    Dill
    Lee Marvin
    Linda Sherman
    Virginia Leith
    Elsie Braden
    Sylvia Sidney
    Farmer Stadt
    Ernest Borgnine
    Harry Reeves
    Tommy Noonan
    Chapman
    J. Carrol Naish
    Mrs Emily Fairchild
    Margaret Hayes
    Helen Martin
    Dorothy Patrick
    Steve Martin
    Billy Chapin
    Gil Clayton
    Brad Dexter
    Mr Fairchild
    Raymond Greenleaf
    Stan
    Robert Adler
    Mrs Stadt
    Ann Morrison
    David Stadt
    Kevin Corcoran

    Director
    Richard Fleischer

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