Films involving Limb & Spinal Conditions

Limb & Spinal Conditions: Minor Films

Title	Violent Men, The (1955)
Alternative/Original Title
Disability	Limb
Country	USA
Length	96
Genre	Western
Rating	3
Director	Rudolph Mate
Cast	Glenn Ford Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Dianne Foster Brian Keith
Notes	Ford has bought and developed a ranch while convalescing from a bullet wound in the lung after the civil war in which he was a Union captain. At the beginning of the film he is ready to return east with the woman he is going to marry. But the local big rancher who is buying up all the small ranches offers him a paltry sum. The terms are 'buy or else'. Ford after being a reluctant fighter faces up to him. The brutal rancher is played by Robinson and is on crutches after being shot in the legs during a previous range war. His disability is used as a plot device to show he has lost his power, changed for the better and it is his brother who is the real villain now. The brother is also having an affair with Robinson's wife. In the end the brother and the wife die and Robinson is resurrected (almost literally). A reasonably entertaining film and the switch of Robinson from villain to goodie well handled. From the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton

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