The Outrage
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| The Outrage | |
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| Directed by | Martin Ritt |
| Produced by | A. Ronald Lubin |
| Written by | Ryunosuke Akutagawa (original short story Rashomon), Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon screenplay), Shinobu Hashimoto (Rashomon screenplay), Fay Kanin (Rashomon play), Michael Kanin (Rashomon play), Michael Kanin (screenplay) |
| Starring | Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner, Howard Da Silva, Albert Salmi, Thomas Chalmers, Paul Fix |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Release date(s) | 1964 |
| Running time | 97 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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The Outrage is a 1964 film that is a remake of the Japanese film Rashomon (1950). It was directed by Martin Ritt and is based on stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
The Outrage stars Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman, Lawrence Harvey, Claire Bloom, and William Shatner. The film uses a western genre to tell the same story as the Japanese movie.
Like the original Kurosawa film, this film shows the contrasting information between various witnesses to a crime.
Shatner and Robinson listen to four different versions of a rape/murder, told alternatively by Harvey, Bloom, Newman and Howard Da Silva. Harvey is the one murdered, but tells his story through an Indian medicine man. Each story is a biased opinion of what happened, and the movie never resolves which story is true (if any).
