on 10/22/2023, 12:08 pm, in reply to "YouTube link: VIOLENT SATURDAY (1955)"
I should be interested to read the source novel by William L. Heath, to see if the Peyton-Place-cum-heist-story set-up works better there. The film is far from a total loss, though. It looks fantastic in Deluxe Color and CinemaScope, which really bring out the qualities of the shrewd location filming in Bisbee, Arizona. The movie has a LOOK. Lee Marvin does nicely as a neurotic robber, but the acting palm goes to Virginia Leith, who shines in all of her scenes and has a great final exchange with Tommy Noonan as a Peeping Tom banker.
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