Review of The Outlaw

The Outlaw (1943)
2/10
Walter Houston and Thomas Mitchell's embarrassment
6 April 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Recently saw this film on TCM, and it seemed worse than ever. I first saw this film when the top of a woman's breasts were enough to get boys to spend a quarter to see a cowboy movie. Boy, were we disappointed. This was not a "cowboy" movie of the genre that we were accustomed to seeing. We couldn't figure out who was the good guy, and who was the bad guy. Even at our tender ages, we deemed the "action scenes" as decidedly corny. I didn't know who Howard Hughes was at the time, and now that I do, I think he should have kept to designing airplanes.

Its a shame that two academy award winning actors used up their time and talent on such a terrible movie. I would only recommend seeing this film, to see how bad it is. The only memorable item about this movie centered around breasts and bras, and today seems like a tempest in a tea pot.
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