Violent Saturday (1955)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Cinemascope 90m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Richard Egan, Victor Mature, Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin
Synopsis:
Hoodlums converge on a bank, casing things out in preparation for a strike the following Saturday. Meanwhile a number of frail human stories peppered among the inhabitants of the small town work themselves out on the fateful day.
Review:
The opening reel of this crime thriller offers a disorienting fragmentation of narrative that epitomizes the whole film, and suggests Kubrick's The Killing may have been some inspiration. The cast includes some of the most oleaginous of Hollywood's villains and secondary characters of the period, and chroniclers of screen violence may wish to observe one of the earliest attempts to depict the 'uplifting' effect of a shotgun blast with some realism. Ultmately the inexorable build-up to something we suspect will happen over three quarters of its length becomes self-defeating.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Cinemascope 90m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Richard Egan, Victor Mature, Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin
Synopsis:
Hoodlums converge on a bank, casing things out in preparation for a strike the following Saturday. Meanwhile a number of frail human stories peppered among the inhabitants of the small town work themselves out on the fateful day.
Review:
The opening reel of this crime thriller offers a disorienting fragmentation of narrative that epitomizes the whole film, and suggests Kubrick's The Killing may have been some inspiration. The cast includes some of the most oleaginous of Hollywood's villains and secondary characters of the period, and chroniclers of screen violence may wish to observe one of the earliest attempts to depict the 'uplifting' effect of a shotgun blast with some realism. Ultmately the inexorable build-up to something we suspect will happen over three quarters of its length becomes self-defeating.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Cinemascope 90m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Richard Egan, Victor Mature, Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin
Synopsis:
Hoodlums converge on a bank, casing things out in preparation for a strike the following Saturday. Meanwhile a number of frail human stories peppered among the inhabitants of the small town work themselves out on the fateful day.
Review:
The opening reel of this crime thriller offers a disorienting fragmentation of narrative that epitomizes the whole film, and suggests Kubrick's The Killing may have been some inspiration. The cast includes some of the most oleaginous of Hollywood's villains and secondary characters of the period, and chroniclers of screen violence may wish to observe one of the earliest attempts to depict the 'uplifting' effect of a shotgun blast with some realism. Ultmately the inexorable build-up to something we suspect will happen over three quarters of its length becomes self-defeating.