The Violent Men | |
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Directed by | Rudolph Maté |
Screenplay by | Harry Kleiner |
Based on | Smoky Valley 1955 novel by Donald Hamilton |
Produced by | Lewis J. Rachmil |
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Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,950,000 (US)[2] |
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.[3][4][1][5] Based on the 1955 novel Smoky Valley by Donald Hamilton,[6][4] 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.