Day of the Outlaw (1959) on Netflix
Blaise Starrett, a cattleman, is at odds with the homesteaders fencing the range and with Hal Crane, who married Helen, the woman Starrett loves. Jack Bruhn and his gang ride into town.
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Plot summary
Blaise Starrett helped found Bitters, Wyoming, and makes his living from cattle there. He has no patience for the homesteaders who have settled nearby and strung barbed wire to keep their stock from wandering. His anger is aimed at Hal Crane, who brought the fencing and who married Helen, whom Starrett loves. Helen has warned him that killing her husband would end any hope of her love, and he means to do it anyway. Before that happens, a former Army captain named Jack Bruhn rides into town with a band of rogue cavalrymen. The gang holds Bitters hostage while Bruhn, wounded in a bank robbery, receives treatment, and Starrett searches for a way to save the town.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Day of the Outlaw (1959)
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- The shoot was plagued with trouble: screenwriter Philip Yordan said star Robert Ryan was out for a week with pneumonia, snowstorms delayed filming, director Andre de Toth kept switching scenes to remote exteriors, and de Toth finally ran out of money, packed up and went back to Hollywood.
- Producer Buddy Adler bought the film rights to Lee Edwin Wells's 1955 novel Day of the Outlaw, which had already run as a newspaper serial, as a vehicle for Robert Wagner.
