Day of the Outlaw - Mark Miller

The movie Day of the Outlaw portrays the extremist view of objectification of women during the 1950’s, giving a different twist on the “other,” which mainly refers to women in westerns. Outlaws would often come into the town to rob and take advantage of women. During a Saturday Night Social, Jack Bruhn, the leader of a gang of outlaws, and his gang would come in and take advantage of every single girl there. They would simply hand the girls of to one another, as they pleased, as if they were nothing more than a source of entertainment. The women in this film are essentially powerless, just as the women of the late 1950’s were. Although women in the 1950’s were supposed to have equal rights and opportunities as males legally, they did not. In Day of the Outlaw, they did not have equal rights legally, but instead had they had a specific order from their leader, Jack Bruhn, to not harm women in any way, which his gang of outlaws did not obey either. It took a drastic plan of action to protect the women, one in which only an alpha male cowboy would do. Blaise, the protagonist of the movie, had to lead all of the women away from town to protect them.