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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.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Dec 20218/10
_**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 wholly corrupted and still has some sense of nobility. Several of his hardened men, however, have clearly crossed over into the dark side. Tina Louise, who would play Ginger from Gilligan’s Island in 5-6 years, is younger & cuter here while Venetia Stevenson is nimble and winsome. You might remember Venetia from her jaw-dropping role in “The City of the Dead,” aka “Horror Hotel” (1960). Director Andre DeToth was havin
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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 as a moody film noir piece in a cold wintry Western setting The atmosphere throughout hangs heavy like a weighted burden, with this tiny tin pot town in the snowy swept mountains photographed starkly by Russell Harlan. This is some out of the way place that nobody but its small inhabitants care about (appropriately it's called Bitters), and even those that do are probably doing so more out of ill judged
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Cast
- Robert RyanBlaise Starrett
- Burl IvesJack Bruhn
- Tina LouiseHelen Crane
- Alan MarshalHal Crane
- Venetia StevensonErnine, Vic's Daughter
- David NelsonGene, Bruhn's Gang
- Nehemiah PersoffDan, Starret's Foreman
- Jack LambertTex, Bruhn's gang
- Frank De KovaDenver, Bruhn's Gang
- Lance FullerPace, Bruhn's Gang
Crew
- André de TothDirector
- Philip YordanScreenplay
- Lee E. WellsNovel
- Russell HarlanDirector of Photography
- Alexander CourageOriginal Music Composer
- Robert LawrenceEditor
- Sidney HarmonProducer
- Philip YordanProducer
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