The Violent Men (1955)
(Rough Company)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.55:1 96m
Director: Rudolph Maté
Cast: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith
Synopsis:
A convalescent former Yankee captain in Texas reconsiders his plan to return back East with his fiancée when one by one his neighbours fall victim to the rapacity of a cattleman and his faithless wife.
Review:
Good-looking Columbia western in CinemaScope, with a robust, if insistent, Steiner score. Ford is the pacifist rancher ready to turn when provoked, while Stanwyck turns in an off-the-peg performance as the ice-cold scheming matriarch. Unfortunately too much time is spent on the 'Dallas'-style soap operatics and not enough on the political ramifications of a venal sheriff and equally corruptible populace. Maté still manages to sustain interest and excitement, however, while Jean Louis's gowns for Stanwyck, Foster and especially May Wynn (as Ford's intended) are not the only element that recalls the star's work in film noir.
(Rough Company)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.55:1 96m
Director: Rudolph Maté
Cast: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith
Synopsis:
A convalescent former Yankee captain in Texas reconsiders his plan to return back East with his fiancée when one by one his neighbours fall victim to the rapacity of a cattleman and his faithless wife.
Review:
Good-looking Columbia western in CinemaScope, with a robust, if insistent, Steiner score. Ford is the pacifist rancher ready to turn when provoked, while Stanwyck turns in an off-the-peg performance as the ice-cold scheming matriarch. Unfortunately too much time is spent on the 'Dallas'-style soap operatics and not enough on the political ramifications of a venal sheriff and equally corruptible populace. Maté still manages to sustain interest and excitement, however, while Jean Louis's gowns for Stanwyck, Foster and especially May Wynn (as Ford's intended) are not the only element that recalls the star's work in film noir.
(Rough Company)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.55:1 96m
Director: Rudolph Maté
Cast: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith
Synopsis:
A convalescent former Yankee captain in Texas reconsiders his plan to return back East with his fiancée when one by one his neighbours fall victim to the rapacity of a cattleman and his faithless wife.
Review:
Good-looking Columbia western in CinemaScope, with a robust, if insistent, Steiner score. Ford is the pacifist rancher ready to turn when provoked, while Stanwyck turns in an off-the-peg performance as the ice-cold scheming matriarch. Unfortunately too much time is spent on the 'Dallas'-style soap operatics and not enough on the political ramifications of a venal sheriff and equally corruptible populace. Maté still manages to sustain interest and excitement, however, while Jean Louis's gowns for Stanwyck, Foster and especially May Wynn (as Ford's intended) are not the only element that recalls the star's work in film noir.