Three Violent People is a 1957 American Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker, Bruce Bennett, and Elaine Stritch.

Carpetbaggers have taken control of his town, including a corrupt Yankee tax commissioner named Harrison and his deputy Cable.

Loyal grand vaquero Innocencio Ortega, who looked out for the spread with his five sons while Colt was off to war, says that Yankees have been rustling their horses with no intervention by the law.

Innocencio and his sons foil the plot but a disillusioned Colt orders Lorna to leave, throwing her gold coins in "payment for services rendered."

Cinch grabs the opportunity to make off with a hidden herd of valuable horses Colt needs to pay the taxes, enlisting the embittered Lorna to help him.

Innocencio tells him that Lorna is pregnant and Colt offers her the value of his horses if she agrees to stay and give birth, leaving the child with him.

The New York Times review of the film was: "THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE, the Paramount Western in VistaVision and color that opened Saturday at the Globe, hoards most of its violence for a rootin'-shootin' finale.

[...] Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter and Gilbert Roland are co-starred, and literally hog-tied, in this Hugh Brown production penned by James Edward Grant.

Add two personable young newcomers from Broadway, Tom Tryon and Elaine Stritch, whose brief portrait of a saloon hostess all but salvages the film.

A nice enough saloon transient; Miss Baxter, tricks a stalwart ranch heir, Mr. Heston, into marriage and settles down with him for true love and happiness, she thinks.

"[4] DVD Talk's review of the film was: "A soapy Western redeemed somewhat by an exciting climatic shoot-out, Three Violent People (1957) re-teamed Charlton Heston with his Ten Commandments co-star, Anne Baxter.