Word: outlawful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obvious, corny, overdrawn, melodramatic as The Outlaw is, it may do business. The critics hedged their bets a little: they know that many a bad picture has been profitable. But of the critics who saw the first showing, only one (Hearstpapers' Louella Parsons) thought it good. The general impression was that Red, the horse, stole all the honors...
...public eye during the picture's long delay, Hughes hired Press Agent Russell Birdwell. Birdwell's solution: high-pressure exploitation of Miss Russell's flaring femininity. Result: some 60 magazine articles, innumerable news pictures. The Hays office helped by censoring one or two shots from The Outlaw. When the Hays office objected to a Buetel line, "You borrowed from me; now I borrowed your gal," Hughes changed the line to "Tit for tat." Hastily the Hays censor agreed the first version...
Fortnight ago Press Agent Birdwell shepherded 48 Hollywood reporters, columnists and fan-magazine writers (and their wives) to San Francisco to see The Outlaw's first public showing in prewar Hollywood premiere junket style...
...Story. Plot of The Outlaw starts with Gunman Doc (Walter Huston) arriving in a Western town to find his old friend Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) has gone straight, is now a sheriff. Doc reports that his favorite horse, Red, has been stolen, and the horse is discovered in th° possession of Billy the Kid. Doc's first impulse is to recover his horse. But he realizes Billy can beat him to the draw, and decides to bide his time...
From this point on The Outlaw scurries pell-mell toward the inevitable day when Billy and Rio ride off astride Red, the horse, into the phoniest Hollywood sunset yet photographed...