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Day of the Outlaw (1959)

NR 07/01/1959 Western 1h 32m
68%
User
Score
7.3/10
100%

Watch what happens to the women... watch the west explode!

Overview

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

André de Toth

Director

Philip Yordan

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

Blaise Starrett

Burl Ives

Burl Ives

Jack Bruhn

Tina Louise

Tina Louise

Helen Crane

Alan Marshal

Alan Marshal

Hal Crane

Venetia Stevenson

Venetia Stevenson

Ernine, Vic's Daughter

David Nelson

David Nelson

Gene, Bruhn's Gang

Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

Dan, Starret's Foreman

Jack Lambert

Jack Lambert

Tex, Bruhn's gang

Frank De Kova

Frank De Kova

Denver, Bruhn's Gang

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Media

Day of the Outlaw (1959) Original Trailer [HD]

Day of the Outlaw (1959) Original Trailer [HD]

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on February 22, 2020

There are things worse, ma'am, than dancing with lonely men.

Cowboys and ranchers must stick together when a gang of outlaws ride into town intent on causing trouble and abusing the town. Even though the outlaw leader, ex army Captain Jack Bruhn has them under some sort of control, salvation may have to come from the moody Blaise Starrett, who has his own secret agendas to deal with.

Day Of The Outlaw (poor title not befitting the quality of the film) is directed by André De Toth ("Ramrod", "Crime Wave" & "House of Wax") and stars Robert Ryan, Burl Ives & Tina Louise. Adapted from the novel written by Lee E. Wells, it's a film that is crying out to be seen by more people, especially those with an aversion to Westerns. For although grounded in Western tradition, it comes across more...

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A review by Wuchak

Written on December 27, 2021

_**Robert Ryan and Ginger stuck in a snowy mountain town beleaguered by rogues**_

A tough cattleman (Robert Ryan) in bleak Bitters, Wyoming, is willing to use deadly force to stop a rancher (Alan Marshal) who’s fencing-in the area, but a band of rogue cavalry men led by Capt. Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) interrupt their quarrel. Tina Louise plays the rancher’s wife, Venetia Stevenson a girl in the town and David Nelson a reasonable member of the gang.

“Day of the Outlaw” (1959) is a B&W psychological Western shot in the Oregon Cascades. It’s similar to Westerns from the same period by Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher, not to mention just as good or better. The protagonist (Ryan) isn’t a hero, but rather a tortured man ready to make a last stand; meanwhile Bruhn (Ives) isn’t ...

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