{"id":38297,"date":"2025-02-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38297"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:52:27","slug":"act-of-violence-1948-starring-van-heflin-robert-ryan-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38297","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Act of Violence&#8221; (1948) starring Van Heflin &amp; Robert Ryan \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z020725zview_actofviolence.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Act of Violence <\/i>(1948)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Fred Zinnemann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Robert L. Richards<\/strong>; story by<strong> Collier Young<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger, Taylor Holmes, Will Wright, Rudolph Anders\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Barbara Billingsley <\/strong>(voice)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>He&#8217;s the only one that came out alive &#8230; and now he wants my life &#8230; to atone for the others&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frank Enley (Heflin) is living the good life. Frank served proudly in the war. Now he has a job he loves.\u00a0 Frank is married to a wonderful woman who loves him. They have a beautiful little girl.\u00a0 Frank is a respected member of the community.\u00a0 Life is great.<\/p>\n<p>Then Joe Parkson (Ryan) shows up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parkson was in a prisoner of war camp with Frank.\u00a0 Parkson knows that Frank Enley gave the Nazis information about a planned escape.\u00a0 The Nazis killed all the US soldiers trying to get away except Parkson.\u00a0 Parkson almost died and was left with a permanent limp.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Parkson has found Frank Enley, he&#8217;s going to kill him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although <em>Act of Violence<\/em> bombed at the box office it has gained a positive following over the years.\u00a0 It currently has a 7.5\/10 rating on the IMDb.\u00a0 At <em>Rotten Tomatoes<\/em> it scored 94% from critics and 76% from site users.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the minority on this one.\u00a0 I found it to be just okay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Act of Violence <\/i>(1948) <\/em><\/strong>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z020725zview_actofviolence2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act of Violence (1948) Director: \u00a0Fred Zinnemann Screenplay:\u00a0 Robert L. 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