Violent Saturday

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Violent Saturday is a 1955 American film noir crime drama directed by Richard Fleischer that centers on a small town shaken by a meticulously planned bank robbery and the intersecting lives of its residents.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
authorOfSourceWork William L. Heath
basedOn novel Violent Saturday
cinematographer Charles G. Clarke
colorProcess DeLuxe Color
composer Hugo Friedhofer
countryOfOrigin United States
director Richard Fleischer
distributor 20th Century Fox
distributorRegion theatrical release in the United States
editor Hugh S. Fowler
filmFormat CinemaScope
genre crime film
drama film
film noir
mainCharacter Bank robbers gang
Boyd Fairchild
Harper
Shelley Martin
notableAspect uses widescreen CinemaScope for a film noir story
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A small town is shaken by a meticulously planned bank robbery and the intersecting lives of its residents.
producer Buddy Adler
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
releaseYear 1955
runtimeMinutes 90
screenwriter Sydney Boehm
setting small mining town in Arizona
starring Betty Field
Brad Dexter
Ernest Borgnine
J. Carrol Naish
Lee Marvin
Margaret Hayes
Richard Deacon
Richard Egan
Stephen McNally
Sylvia Sidney
Tommy Noonan
Victor Mature
Virginia Leith
theme crime and morality in a small town
hidden lives and secrets of ordinary people
violence and redemption
timePeriodOfSetting 1950s

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Richard Fleischer notableWork Violent Saturday
Sydney Boehm notableWork Violent Saturday
Sydney Boehm wroteScreenplayFor Violent Saturday