Violent Saturday. Richard Fleischer, 1955.
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Edition screened: Eureka! Blu-ray, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: Careless disregard for animals’ lives.
Details: The bank robbers drive their car directly into a group of Guinea hens. One hen appears to have been hit, but walks off.
Violent Saturday is an exciting and surprisingly good heist film, marred only slightly by this one scene of careless indifference, foreshadowing the way humans will be treated by the same bank robbers in the following scenes.
The Eureka! BD also includes two short video exposés, Richard Fleischer, Storyteller: William Friedkin on Violent Saturday (2013 Robert Fischer), and Mélodrame Policier with Nicolas Saada (2013 Nicolas Ripoche), both animal violence-free.