ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

GUENOT PHILIPPE Soap opera stuff has always, more or less, been a typical scheme for American movie and TV industry line. You can't deny that. The also more or less description of the famous American way of life, the best way to show the audiences things related with their actual - again more or less - real life with daily problems, gossips about neighbours to fill time and forget their own issues, and I don't speak of the basic human nature of curiosity and naughtiness, etc...So this mix up to the classic film noir tradition, also related to the movie industry, you obtain this picture. This could have been a western instead a crime flick. Lee Marvin is far more interesting than the ever bleak Victor Mature; for instance don't miss the sequence where Marvin describes a girl friend whose he was married with in the past; this seems cheesy at first sight, but it is not, I assure you. Yes, Mature is more than forgettable here. But the movie, inspired from Bill Heath's novel, remains very interesting.

christopher-underwood Once or twice this almost slips into melodrama but a strong cast with a strong script and magical direction and cinematography keep this moving wonderfully. Described in my Blu-ray booklet as a, 'sun-kissed noir' and it is hard to argue with as the bright and sunny cinemascope visuals collide with the devilish doings of the three bad dudes in town. Filmed in copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, the industry is woven seamlessly into the story as the various inhabitants criss cross each others lives and we learn remarkably much as they interact with each other. There is a marvellous scene in a drug store which sells everything (I even noticed a rack of pulp paperbacks) where we follow one character in, another is already in there and there is a brief exchange as unnoticed one of the bank robbers enters to make a crucial phone call. There are also great shots as the train crosses the desert, skies as good as any of Ford's. I'm not especially a fan of Victor Mature but he does well here mixing home life, work life and heroism. Not by any means action and hip talk all the way but convincingly and entertainingly structured to great effect. Oh and just watch out for Ernest Borgnine as an Amish farmer.

sol- Three criminals plan how they intend to rob a small town bank while the unsuspecting local citizens deal with their own personal problems, all of which results in a violent weekend full of men trying to prove their worth in this slow burn thriller starring Victor Mature. Shot in CinemaScope with glorious, rich colours, 'Violent Saturday' is an incredibly good-looking film and the vivid nature of the images suits the gradual build-up of tension very well; grumpy men step on kids' hands, solemn women offer piercing glares, etc. When push comes to shove though, the build-up occurs for far too long. It is over an hour in before the heist actually takes place and while a subsequent barnyard show down rates among the most intense sequences that director Richard Fleischer ever filmed, one has endure over an hour of (at times) histrionic melodrama before any such tension finally erupts. And yet, while it may have been a more effective film at half its length, the overall impact of the movie is hard to shake. The supporting characters vary in how engaging they are, but Mature is excellent throughout as the emotionally torn protagonist, resentful of the fact that he is not the war hero that his impressionable preteen son wants him to be. The film also benefits from one of Hugo Friedhofer's most powerful scores and seeing Ernest Borgnine as an Amish farmer has definite curiosity value alone.

lastliberal Interesting movie about small town stories against the background of a bank robbery. Lots of good actors in one place.Shelley (Victor Mature) has to keep an eye on his boss Boyd (Richard Egan) for his father. Boyd's wife Emily (Margaret Hayes) is fooling around with the local golf pro. At the library, Elsie (Sylvia Sidney) is stealing from women's purses to pay her bills. And, the bank manager (Tommy Noonan) has a roving eye for Linda (Virginia Leith), a local beauty. He sneaks out at night to watch her undress.The gang from out of town is watching everything. Lee Marvin is stepping on a little boy's fingers, while Harper (Stephen McNally) and Chapman (J. Carrol Naish) are gathering intel.The robbery goes off as planned, but what they didn't know was that Shelley's son was upset that Georgie's dad won a medal at Iwo Jima, and Shelley had to stay home and keep the copper coming. Shelley gets in the middle of things and becomes the town hero.Also featuring Ernest Borgnine as an Amish farmer that finds being a pacifist is sometimes tough when you family is threatened.Mature may not be a great actor, but I do enjoy watching him.