The Violent Men is a 1955 American Western film directed by
Rudolph Maté and starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson,
Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, and May Wynn. Based on the 1955 novel Smoky Valley
by Donald Hamilton, its storyline involves a ranch owner who comes into
conflict with the land grabbing tactics of the big local family but whose own
tense marriage threatens their stranglehold over the region.