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The Violent Men

1955·96 min

The Violent Men

Directed by Rudolph Maté

Western

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.

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John Parrish

Barbara Stanwyck

Martha Wilkison

Edward G. Robinson

Lee Wilkison

Judith Wilkison

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W. Howard Greene

Director of Photography

Lewis J. Rachmil

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Cole Wilkison

Caroline Vail

Warner Anderson

Jim McCloud

Tex Hinkleman

Elena

Richard Jaeckel

Wade Matlock

James Westerfield

Sheriff Magruder

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Sheriff Martin Kenner

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Richard Farnsworth

Anchor Rider (uncredited)

George Menefee (uncredited)

Mahoney (uncredited)

Katherine Warren

Mrs. Vail (uncredited)

Raymond Greenleaf

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The Violent Men (1955) is about a former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.

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Rudolph Maté directed The Violent Men (1955).

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