Day of the Outlaw (1959)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

André De Toth

Writers:

Lee E. Wells (novel)
Philip Yordan (screenplay)

Release Date:

July 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Cowboys and ranchers have to put their differences aside when a gang of outlaws, led by army captain Jack Bruhn...

Plot Keywords:

Outlaw | Winter | Beautiful Woman | Based On Novel

Cast

Robert Ryan	...	Blaise Starrett
Burl Ives	...	Jack Bruhn
Tina Louise	...	Helen Crane
Alan Marshal	...	Hal Crane
Venetia Stevenson	...	Ernine, Vic's Daughter
David Nelson	...	Gene, Bruhn's Gang
Nehemiah Persoff	...	Dan, Starret's Foreman
Jack Lambert	...	Tex (Bruhn's gang)
Frank DeKova	...	Denver, Bruhn's Gang (as Frank deKova)
Lance Fuller	...	Pace, Bruhn's Gang
Elisha Cook Jr.	...	Larry Teter (town barber) (as Elisha Cook)
Dabbs Greer	...	Doc Langer, Veterinarian
Betsy Jones-Moreland	...	Mrs. Preston (as Betsey Jones-Moreland)
Helen Westcott	...	Vivian
Donald Elson	...	Vic, General Store Owner

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Sound)

Certification:

West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:(Banned) | UK:PG | USA:Approved (certificate #19266)

Company:

Security Pictures

Quotes:

Vic, General Store Owner: I don't hold for killin'.
Blaise Starrett: You don't have to... as long as you got somebody to do it for you.

CAST OF ALL TIME GREAT ACTORS!

This 1959 black and white Western story had very eerie photography which was about a town with very few people, high in the mountains, snow covered and plenty of fog. It had some very depressing scenes with hardly any groceries on the store shelves and very few bottles of booze behind the bar. Horses and men had trouble walking in the snow and you never knew who was going to kill who, a horse was even killed because it fell and broke his leg. Burl Ives,(Jack Bruhn) did not sing a song, but gave orders to his men, and kept them from any women or drink. Bruhn sort of took over the town and layed the law down and had a bullet removed without even a drop of booze to ease the pain. Robert Ryan(Blaise Starrett) was in love with a married woman and managed to leave the town and then return as a hero. Tina Louise (Helen Crane) was the sweetheart of this film and Elisha Cook Jr.,"I Wake Up Screaming" and "Rosemary's Baby", was a barber in this picture, however, you never saw him give a haircut, nor his usual bulging eyes and nervous looks. Believe it or not, there was some laughs in this film, especially when the men were allowed to dance with the few local woman, they went wild and just jumped and threw them all around, only to try to get a kiss. This is still a classic film and is worth viewing.