Day of the Outlaw

1959

Action / Drama / Western

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 71% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 4853 4.9K

winter outlaw shootout

Plot summary

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.

Director

André De Toth Photo
André De Toth

Top cast

Jack Lambert Photo
Jack Lambert as Tex
Frank DeKova Photo
Frank DeKova as Denver, Bruhn's Gang
Robert Ryan Photo
Robert Ryan as Blaise Starrett
Helen Westcott Photo
Helen Westcott as Vivian
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674.94 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
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1.44 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 8 / 10

Underrated winter western, with a lot to recommend it

From veteran director Andre De Toth comes an underrated and mighty fine winter western. It is a little too short perhaps and there are parts that could have been better paced, but these are minor problems really because Day of the Outlaw is actually very good. For one thing, it is strikingly photographed in stark black and white, and the snowy landscapes are nothing less than magnificent. The score is also a really nice touch, dramatic, beautiful and dramatic, and Day of the Outlaw is also well scripted, nuanced and powerful yet with an essence of bitterness. And in terms of effective scenes the climatic gunfight in the snow is quite remarkable to say the least. The story is evocative and engrossing, the direction is excellent and the acting is adept with Robert Ryan rugged and heroic, Burl Ives brilliant as ever and Tina Louise both alluring and appealing. Overall, underrated with a lot to recommend it. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

No Winter Wonderland For These People

Day Of The Outlaw casts Robert Ryan as a tough westerner who resents the homesteaders like Alan Marshal fencing off the open range. But in Marshal's case, he's got other resents going as well since he's married to Tina Louise who once had a fling with him. He has every intention of doing something about it legally or illegally and who's to question in this remote rugged high country in a town that's barely twenty or so people.But when Burl Ives and a murderous pack of outlaws ride into town and take it over to provision up because the US Cavalry is chasing them, Ryan, Marshal, Louise and everyone else is in the same boat. Imagine if you will Ives's Rufus Hannessy from The Big Country leading a gang of outlaws and you see what the town is up against. The only one not a killer is young David Nelson of the group.Ives has an additional problem, a bullet in his chest and the only doctor around is a veterinarian, Dabbs Greer. He gets the bullet out, but Ives would need proper medical care in a hospital to recover and to guard against internal bleeding. That's what slowly killing him, despite the morphine Greer is loading him up with.That part of the story is absolutely the true. Around this same period President William McKinley was shot in Buffalo and was thought to be recovering at first. But even he did not get adequate medical care and took a turn for the worse and a week later, died. Andre DeToth who did many good and rugged westerns did this grim tale set in the west during the winter. It looks like good skiing country, but this ain't no winter paradise for anyone concerned.
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