Violent Saturday [SEP] narrative location
Violent Saturday
Violent Saturday is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Victor Mature, Richard Egan and Stephen McNally. The film, set in a mining town, depicts the planning of a bank robbery as the nexus in the personal lives of several townspeople.
Prominent actors Sylvia Sidney and Ernest Borgnine are in supporting roles. "Violent Saturday" was filmed in color, on location in Bisbee, Arizona.
Plot.
Harper (Stephen McNally) is a bank robber posing as a
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