> on 5/22/03 12:25 PM, jumblejim at
jumblejim@prodigy.net wrote:
> [...] I'm really rather inordinately fond of the
movie--can't quite
> say why, but I like it a lot. It's why I read the
book (not the other way
> around).
>
> Jim Beaver
>
Well, there's always the fact that it was
directed by Richard Fleischer, the man behind "Narrow Margin"
(the *good* version, with Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor)
and "The Boston Strangler" and "10 Rillington Place" (Richard
Attenborough as post-war British killer Christie) and
"Compulsion" (Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell as Leopold
and Loeb) and "The Vikings" and
"Mandingo." A director, all in all, who was at his best when
his characters' instincts were at their worst.
Here are two snippets from Chris
Peachment's mini-review of "Violent Saturday" in Time
Out:
"Any movie which features [Victor]
Mature, [Ernest] Borgnine and [Lee} Marvin has to be some
kind of primer in slobdom."
"Growling that women and children
'make me nervous,' [Marvin] can make his continual inhalation
of benzedrine look like deep degeneracy. When a boy knocks
the nasal spray out of his hand, he treads all over the kid's
fingers."
Marie Windsor, playing the dame in "Narrow
Margin," has a memorable moment when she sneers "Relax,
Percy! Your shield's untarnished!" Something tells me that
Fleischer's own "shield" was tarnished rather early in the
game ...
Chris
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