Really good film
I discovered this film via a newspaper review from a critic called Tim Robey. He wrote:
Every great Western is a unique statement on them all. Consider how many of the best examples are about how the West was lost, not won - and how they like to blur the binary sort of morality we might associate with gunfights at dawn. Andre de Toth's mesmerising 'Day of the Outlaw' keeps redefining everything it's saying: what heroism might mean, what an outlaw is, how best to deal with one ... 'Day of the Outlaw' depicts civilisation as a line in the snow ...
The characters of Blaise Starrett and Captain Jack Bruhn were fascinating as were their interchanges. Both were haunted in different ways by their deeds and how they morphed into antagonists. Does Bruhn show consideration to the townsfolk of Bitters because he wants to avoid another slaughter, or because he wants to feel within himself the better man he once was? I thought that Starrett was offering himself up for death when he started the icy journey across the mountain but he survived.
The bar/dancing scene was so well done that I found it difficult to watch. The way in which the women, especially Helen Crane, were being mauled was awful. So well done by the director and actors. I loved the snow setting; atypical for a Western. 9/10 from me.
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