Violence is a 1947 American drama film noir starring Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, and Sheldon Leonard, and directed by Jack Bernhard.

The film opens in the Los Angeles basement of the United Defenders (UD), a fascist organization for veterans.

Fred Stalk and another goon are interrogating Joe Donahue, who wants to leave the group after discovering it is a scam.

Ann is really an investigative reporter for a muckraking magazine in Chicago, working undercover in L.A. At her apartment she reads a letter from her editor suggesting she has enough material on the UD to return home and file her story.

[3] In December 1946, Jack Bernhard publicized a revision of the screenplay to emulate the Anti-Nazi League's sting.

[4] Louis Lantz was a member of the U.S. Communist Party when he met future Violence co-screenwriter Stanley Rubin in 1941.

In 1953, six years after the film was made, the House Un-American Activities Committee interviewed Rubin about his attendance at Communist Party meetings in the early 1940s.

[5] In July 1946, the Los Angeles Times reported that B&B Pictures bought the rights to John W. Stearn's novel Violence.

Jack Bernhard planned on traveling to Chicago to talk with Stearn about the film and then on to New York to persuade Melville Cooper to star in it.

[6] Later that year, the paper hailed the casting of Nancy Coleman as a welcome return to the screen after leaving Warner Bros.

"[9] Leonard Maltin describes the film's material as "juicy" but "bungled by clumsy storytelling and some terrible performances".