A local TV station used to show it once or twice a year in the ‘70’s. A widescreen color soap opera set in Amish country.
Four criminals show up in town intent on robbing the bank, one played by Lee Marvin as a sadistic hay fever sufferer.
Ernest Borgnine as head of an Amish household. The Amish are nice. He insists that a criminal checking out his farm drink a refreshing glass of buttermilk. I've never tried buttermilk. I don't think I'd like an overbearing Amish guy forcing it on me.
A library employee (Sylvia Sidney) struggles to pay off her loan to the bank. The bank president (Tommy Noonan) is a mild-mannered degenerate who watches a local nurse (Virginia Leith) at night through her window. The nurse tries to help the mine owner’s wealthy son (Richard Egan) whose marriage is on the rocks.
And Victor Mature whose job with the mining company kept him out of the draft. His preteen son is secretly ashamed of him and gets into a fight with a kid whose father spent the war killing Nazis.
It all comes to a head Saturday morning. Banks were open on Saturday back then.
I’m a little surprised they squeezed all this into 90 minutes.
The bank robbers abduct Victor Mature so they can use his car in the hold up. He’s left tied up in a barn with the Amish family.
That’s when it gets REALLY violent. Like Peyton Place directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Free on Movieland TV.
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