I’ve never seen Richard Fleischer’s CinemaScope Noir Violent Saturday, but with a name like that, how can it not be great? Film Forum here in New York will be screening it for a week starting February 29; their press release describes it as star-studded day-in-the-life of a small town, where a trio of bank robbers (including Lee Marvin) collide with a larcenous librarian (Sylvia Sidney), Tommy Noonan as voyeuristic bank manager, and “the usually menacing Ernest Borgnine as a gentle Amish farmer.” WOW.

I’ve embedded the film’s title sequence above. It’s not much, but it’s enough to start to get a feel for the amazing look of the picture–it’s like a 1950s noir dressed up as a 1970s Western. Again: WOW. I’ll be at True/False and then SXSW for most of the film’s run at Film Forum, but I’ll definitely try to catch a press screening and report back.