Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday (1955)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 54% of users liked it
    (145 ratings)

Three bank robbers (J. Carroll Naish, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally) case a small Arizona mining town prior to pulling a holdup. The audience get to know the various townsfolk as they're scrutinized by the crooks. Victor Mature plays a man who is a disappointment to his son because he didn't… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Sydney Boehm
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
In Theaters
Apr 1, 1955 Wide
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

    Uneven small-town thriller.

  • Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

    The cast is a museum exhibit on the nigh-extinct art of scaled-in American bit acting, with the magnificent Sylvia Sidney as the daughter of a prominent family brought low, her flashing pridefulness intact, and Tommy Noonan as a peeping poltroon.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    ... Ernest Borgnine as a pacifist Amish farmer plunging a pitchfork into the back of the devil character played by Lee Marvin ....

  • Eric Kohn, New York Press

    Violent Saturday seems rooted in tradition, but as an exciting pulp story with a profound center, it manages to break all the rules.

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  • Tom S


    Some really great colors and compositions. "Stick these in your kisser and go suck on 'em. Now go back to your mother."

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