Day of the Outlaw

About Day of the Outlaw

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.

Day of the Outlaw (1959) is a western film directed by André de Toth. Its themes are shootout, winter, and outlaw.

Robert Ryan stars as Blaise Starrett, Burl Ives as Jack Bruhn, Tina Louise as Helen Crane, and Alan Marshal as Hal Crane. At 92 minutes long, it arrived in May 1959.

The screenplay is by Philip Yordan. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and ScreenPix Amazon Channel.

Back to the Future Part III, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Havoc make useful companions to Day of the Outlaw. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 118 votes.