"Act of Violence has one of the all-time great openings, which director Fred Zinnemann amazingly manages to stretch it out over the first half-hour: a wild-eyed man (Robert Ryan) retrieves a gun from his hotel room and hops a cross-country train to a small town in California. When he arrives, he circles a name in a phone book: Frank R. Enley. He discovers that Enley (Van Heflin) owns a construction firm and is dedicating a monument to his fellow soldiers who fought in World War II. He's a war hero, and everybody in town loves him. So why does this guy want to kill him? Zinnemann's not telling, at least not for a while."
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