''The Violent Ones'' is a 1967 film directed by and starring

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. The story was written and created by Charles Davis,

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, and Doug Wilson. The film was shot in the Alabama Hills,

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and Lone Pine, California. This was Tommy Sands' last movie before his retirement, though he would act in some TV episodes until 1978.

Plot

Juanita, a girl in a town that's populated by Hispanics, is raped and beaten. The only thing she says before falling into a deep coma is say that her attacker is an outsider, a Gringo. Local Mexican-American Sheriff Vega arrests all three outsiders there are. All he can do is intimidate the prisoners so that one of them admits to being the attacker, or that the girl wakes up to identify him. The girl dies, and her father prepares a lynch mob. The sheriff can't get any help from the state, and even Mendoza, his deputy, is unwilling to help him. The sheriff takes the prisoners out of the jail in a trip to the closest city where they can be processed. But the prisoners, an unstable kid, a brutish man and a coldly intelligent youngster have other plans.

Cast

– Manuel Vega *

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– Joe Vorzyck * Tommy Sands – Mike Marain *

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– Lucas Barnes *

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- Mendoza * Lisa Gaye – Dolores *

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– Juanita * Rodolfo Acosta - Estévez

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* * 1967 films 1967 crime drama films American crime drama films Films about race and ethnicity Films set in New Mexico 1960s English-language films 1960s American films English-language crime drama films Films scored by Marlin Skiles English-language Western (genre) films {{1960s-US-film-stub