☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Violent
Saturday (1955) – R. Fleischer
Take one part noir-ish bank heist film
featuring Lee Marvin with a bad cold and another part widescreen Technicolor
over-the-top sub-Sirkian melodrama (including alcoholics, peeping toms, and
nymphos), add a heaping helping of Victor Mature, stir well. Garnish with Ernest Borgnine playing
Amish. The result is a bizarre cocktail
that is rather intoxicating in its strangeness even as the ingredients threaten
not to hold together at all. The dusty
vistas of Arizona look great with their several shades of dirt and Fleischer
frames the action well even if things get a bit coagulated at times. The sudden violence (of the title) comes as a
surprise in the final moments. This
could have after-effects. Do not drive
after consuming.
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