The Outcast

Name: The Outcast
Genre: Western
Released: 1954-08-15
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: John Derek, Joan Evans, Jim Davis

1954
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1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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John Derek, Ben Cooper, and Joan Evans in The Outcast (1954)

Classical Western Western

Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father's death.Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father's death.Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father's death.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

459

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See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
First credited feature film role for Nicolas Coster, who portrays Asa Polson.

Goofs
The John Derek character sometimes has his gun holster strapped down to his leg and sometimes the strings just hang there. In his confrontation with his uncle it's strapped down, after the 'shootout' it is once again just hanging there.

Quotes
Dude Rankin: So this is Colton, huh? Wonder where a man can find some excitement.
Jet Cosgrave: You'll get your belly full of excitement. I want all your men at Sam Allen's stable come sun-up tomorrow and I want you all sober.
Dude Rankin: All right. Let's hit all the saloons and dig 'em out.
Jet Cosgrave: No, I got some personal business to do.
Dude Rankin: Yeah? Well, so do I. It starts with some whiskey. And if you're old enough, you what goes on from there.

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Featured review

6/10

His rightful inheritance

In this tight little western which has a complex part John Derek is out to get his rightful inheritance of the ranch he feels should have been his. Instead the will lawyer Taylor Holmes drew up left the property to Derek's uncle Jim Davis. Davis is expecting Catherine McLeod a new bride and the stagecoach that brings her also brings Derek.

Derek unfortunately hired a bunch of gunmen led by Bob Steele. His hands aren't clean because of that.

Republic Pictures assembled a real good cast of familiar players to support Derek and Davis. Derek wages war on all fronts making a play for McLeod at the same time he's courting Joan Evans who is a neighboring rancher's daughter. Not exactly a move for a cowboy hero.

In its last years Republic was going in for western stories with an adult theme. The Outcast is not a film you would see Gene or Roy in. But it's a good one.