Double Feature: Violent Saturday (1955) / The Raid (1954)
Still from 'Violent Saturday',1955, Richard Fleischer
Violent Saturday (1955)
Directed by: Richard Fleischer; Screenplay: Sydney Boehm from the novel of William L. Heath; Camera: Charles G. Clarke; Music: Hugo Friedhofer; Actors: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin, J. Carrol Naish, Sylvia Sidney, Ernest Borgnine. 35mm, Color, 90 min
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The Raid (1954)
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese; Screenplay: Sydney Boehm from Affair at St. Albans of Herbert Ravenel Sass; Camera: L. Ballard; Music: R. Webb; Actors: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig. 35mm, Farbe, 83 min
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'Violent Saturday' features a gangster story of a group of bank robbers, who bursts into an apparently clean town, which hides the most sordid secrets about copper's mine. Fleischer creates a subversive view of society in a brilliant noir with an amazing cast.
In 'The Raid', Fregonese tells a true story from the American Civil War. A group of southern soldiers, who just escaped from prison, arrives in a northern city. The story develops around a series of robberies. Many details in the constellation of the characters (with Lee Marvin, playing an 'explosive' role in both films) show astonishing parallels between the two films, linked by the same screenwriter, Sydney Boehm.
With 5 minutes break