Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- enigmatic
- cynical
- morally ambiguous
- classic western night
- cinephile viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly recognized the film as an unconventional and provocative Rashomon adaptation whose commitment to competing truths is stronger than its tonal consistency.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The rape and murder trial is reconstructed through competing accounts from Carrasco, the wife, the dead husband through a shaman, and other witnesses.
The film adapts the Rashomon-style inquiry into truth by moving the action from medieval Japan to the 1870s American Southwest.
The witnesses offer self-serving, contradictory explanations of the assault, killing, and alleged treasure scheme.
Three travelers meet at a decrepit railroad station and recount the trial and its competing flashbacks while waiting for a train.
Films like The Outrage, and why
Rashomon
shared Rashomon-style contradictory testimony, moral ambiguity, and westernized crime drama structure
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
shared revisionist western setting, cynical tone, and interrogation of competing versions of violence
The Wild Bunch
shared ensemble western drama, distrust of official narratives, and bleak moral complexity
Anatomy of a Murder
shared courtroom-centered crime drama, conflicting testimony, and uncertainty about truth
Movie Details
- Director
- Martin Ritt
- Release Date
- 1964-10-07
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 (43)
Cast
- Paul Newman
- Laurence Harvey
- Claire Bloom
- Edward G. Robinson
- William Shatner
- Howard Da Silva
- Albert Salmi
- Thomas Chalmers
- Paul Fix
- Jeffrey Darwin Bowman
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- FlixFling
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, FlixFling
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, FlixFling
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Outrage about?
- At a ruined Southwestern station, travelers unravel a rape and murder through incompatible memories that make truth itself the film’s elusive suspect.
- What is The Outrage like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Outrage as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Outrage violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in The Outrage as moderate.
- What did critics think of The Outrage?
- Critics broadly recognized the film as an unconventional and provocative Rashomon adaptation whose commitment to competing truths is stronger than its tonal consistency.
- Which films are like The Outrage?
- Films with a similar feel include Rashomon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Wild Bunch, and Anatomy of a Murder.
- How long is The Outrage?
- The Outrage runs 96 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Outrage?
- In United States, The Outrage streams on FlixFling.
