The Violent Men (1955)

Directed by

Rudolph Maté

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small ranch owner fights against a powerful local rancher who uses strong-arm tactics to take land. The big rancher's unhappy marriage adds pressure to his grip on the area.

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What happens

The Violent Men is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, and May Wynn. Based on the 1955 novel Smoky Valley by Donald Hamilton, its storyline involves a ranch owner who comes into conflict with the land grabbing tactics of the big local rancher, whose tense marriage threatens his family's stranglehold over the region. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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