The Outrage

The Outrage is a 1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner.[2] It is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Japanese film Rashomon, based on stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Like Kurosawa's film, four people give contradictory accounts of a rape and murder. Ritt utilizes flashbacks to provide these contradictory accounts.[3]

The Outrage
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMartin Ritt
Produced byA. Ronald Lubin
Screenplay byMichael Kanin
Based on"In a Grove" and "Rashomon"
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon
by Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Rashomon (play)
by Fay Kanin
Michael Kanin
StarringPaul Newman
Laurence Harvey
Claire Bloom
Edward G. Robinson
William Shatner
Music byAlex North
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byFrank Santillo
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Martin Ritt Productions
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • October 8, 1964 (1964-10-08)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,800,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[1]

Plot

Three disparate travelers — a disillusioned preacher (William Shatner), an unsuccessful prospector (Howard Da Silva) and a larcenous, cynical con man (Edward G. Robinson) — meet at a decrepit railroad station in the 1870s Southwest United States. The prospector and the preacher were witnesses at the rape and murder trial of the notorious bandit Juan Carrasco (Paul Newman). The bandit duped an aristocratic Southerner, Colonel Wakefield (Laurence Harvey), into believing he knew the location of a lost Aztec treasure. While the greedy "gentleman" was bound to a tree and gagged, Carrasco assaulted his wife Nina (Claire Bloom). These events lead to the stabbing of the husband. Carrasco was tried, convicted, and condemned for the crimes.

Everyone's account on the witness stand differed dramatically. Carrasco claimed that Wakefield was tied up with ropes while Nina was assaulted, after which he killed the colonel in a duel. The newlywed wife contends that she was the one who killed her husband because he accused her of leading on Carrasco and causing the rape. The dead man "testifies" through a third witness, an old Indian shaman (Paul Fix), who said that neither of those accounts was true. The shaman insists that the colonel used a jeweled dagger to commit suicide after the incident.

However, there was a fourth witness, the prospector, one with a completely new view of what actually took place. But can his version be trusted?

Cast

Home media

The Outrage was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on February 17, 2009 in a Region 1 widescreen DVD.

See also

References
  1. This figure consists of anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Top Grossers of 1965", Variety, 5 January 1966 p 36
  2. Field, Sydney (1965-04-01). "Outrage". Film Quarterly. 18 (3): 13–39. doi:10.2307/1210961. ISSN 0015-1386.
  3. Miller, Gabriel (2000). The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. p. 70. ISBN 9781617034961. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
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