The Violent Men

1955 · 96 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 3,510 VOTES · DIR. Rudolph Maté

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 991 lines

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00:01:51 Hey, Jed, take a look at his left hind shoe, will you?
00:05:02 Besides, I'm a stranger around here, Doc. Always have been and always will be.
00:07:48 just to protect himself.
00:10:32 Well, perhaps it was, until I met you.
00:13:46 It may take a little while to get the deal worked out.
00:18:53 than any of the others who came to sell their land at my father's invitation.
00:22:06 - Cole, pour the Captain a drink. - No, thanks.
00:24:31 Summers were worse.
00:27:40 To have fences all around you.
00:30:50 Yes, I needed you, but not for the reason you think.
00:35:13 - My father taught me that very early. - He did a real good job of teaching.
00:40:10 Not since last night.
00:42:34 I'll see you at the ranch in the morning if you change your mind.
00:47:36 That was none of my doing.
00:51:03 I'd almost given up hope of seeing you alive after what happened last night.
00:53:27 I want you to know, if the time comes when you need a few extra men with guns...
01:00:54 Your real concern should be Parrish.
01:03:13 Didn't matter what happened to me.
01:06:19 I don't believe it has to be that way, to kill and be killed.
01:10:05 - What's troubling you? - Nothing. Why do you ask?
01:17:20 unless I got legal cause to deputise them.
01:19:57 to whoever brings Parrish in dead or alive.
01:23:50 You'll lose the rest of them if you make a stand here.
01:26:59 I'm going to get Cole. Without him, those hired gun-hands won't fight.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed991
Dialogue density10.3 lines / min
First line00:01:51
Final line01:26:59

Production Record

DirectorRudolph Maté
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,510