Day of the Outlaw
Day of the Outlaw is a 1959 Western film starring Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, and Tina Louise. It was directed by Andr De Toth this was his last Western feature film.
The feud is about to come to a bloody end when Jack Bruhn Burl Ives, and his band of thugs ride into town. They are on the run from the law after robbing a bank. He is a wounded outlaw, a former cavalry officer but that doesnt stop him and his gang holding the towns civilians hostage. Starrett must now find a way to save his town, and redeem himself in the process. He does so by helping the bad guys escape, or so they think, across the snowcovered mountains.The film was based on a 1955 novel of the same title by Lee Edwin Wells 19071982, that also ran in several newspapers as a serialized story in the fall of 1955 and others in the late summer 1956. Producer Buddy Adler originally purchased the film rights as a vehicle for Robert Wagner. Philip Yordan read the novel and insisted on writing a script based on the book. ........
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