Premiere
1
Apr1955
Studio
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Violent Saturday (1955) — watch online on iFILM. Richard Fleischer keeps this crime drama deceptively quiet for most of its runtime: three strangers spend days casing a small Arizona town while the locals go about their ordinary worries.
Victor Mature plays a town resident caught in the crossfire; Lee Marvin menaces as one of the robbers; Ernest Borgnine turns in a quietly unsettling supporting role. What looks like a routine heist setup tightens into something uglier once the actual Saturday arrives.
Fleischer trusted atmosphere over explanation — long looks, spare dialogue, and a creeping sense that something is about to go badly wrong. A lean, well-cast American noir from the middle of the decade. Stream Violent Saturday online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring
Victor Mature
Shelley Martin
Richard Egan
Boyd Fairchild
Stephen McNally
Harper (bank robber)
Virginia Leith
Linda Sherman
Tommy Noonan
Harry Reeves, Bank Manager
Lee Marvin
Dill, Bank Robber
Margaret Hayes
Mrs. Emily Fairchild
J. Carrol Naish
Chapman, Bank Robber
Sylvia Sidney
Elsie Braden
Ernest Borgnine
Stadt, Amish Farmer
Dorothy Patrick
Helen Martin
Billy Chapin
Steve Martin
Brad Dexter
Gil Clayton
Sammy Ogg
Boy Pedestrian (uncredited)
Robert Adler
Stan
John Alderson
Amish Farmer on Train
Virginia Carroll
Carol, Martin's Secretary
Harry Carter
Bart, Policeman
Kevin Corcoran
David Stadt
Noreen Corcoran
Anna Stadt
Richard Fleischer
crew
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