The Outrage

The Outrage
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMartin Ritt
Screenplay byMichael Kanin
Based on"In a Grove" and "Rashomon"
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon
by Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Rashomon (play)
by Fay Kanin
Michael Kanin
Produced byA. Ronald Lubin
Starring
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byFrank Santillo
Music byAlex North
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
KHF Productions
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • October 8, 1964 (1964-10-08)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million
Box office$1,800,000 (US/ Canada rentals)

The Outrage is a 1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner.

It is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Japanese film Rashomon, based on stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, adapted to an American setting. Like Kurosawa's film, four people give contradictory accounts of a rape and murder. Ritt utilizes flashbacks to provide these contradictory accounts.