Recollection from circa 1943

Thank you for sharing that great story...although I wasn't around when Jane Russell was popular, I imagine that you must have been in love with her for months after seeing this film. My dad tells me he always had a thing for her.

I guess some gentlemen do NOT prefer blondes!

In regards to your final comment, I think that by blacking out the bedroom scene, your imagination was probably far more exciting than anything they could have showed in the film, and the editing probably made it even sexier!

Aren't monsters scarier when they DON'T show them on film, and you have to imagine them? And, don't you think sexy scenes are sexier when they DON'T show them on screen, so that you have to fill in all the details with your own imagination? Your own imagination is always better than anything that a filmmaker can do, which is why books are scarier, or sexier, than movies.

"Enough of that technical talk, Foo!"

The film was produced in 1943, but was "banned" and not shown in Dallas until several years later. I heard all the commotion and went to the neighborhood "picture show" to see it. I was about six. All I remember is that the "guy" and the "girl" were beautiful--they looked like they could be brother and sister (I'd heard that Jack Beutel was from our area). The only scene I remember was in the barn, with the pitchfork--whew). I did see PART of the film a few years ago, and it was absolutely awful. I saw "Red River" in 1949, however, and recognized it as the best picture I'd ever seen. It's still in my Top Five.

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THE OUTLAW did not open in Manhattan until 1947.

Wikipedia has the film being released to theaters 1943 for a week before being pulled for Code violation. Like how Hughes put Directed & Produced by H H. Very common for vanity money to put Produced & Directed by
X X. Shows Hughes attempt to play artist (Director) since that role was coming into vogue as being keystone to a serious film. Sturges, Capra, etc. A little knowledge goes a long way, though not in this case.
Gotta admire the effort.
Doc in beginning with Pat is so gay. Posture and hands all over Pat who ends up with “Man’s gotta settle down sometime!” Like an old wife. Don’t start me on Billy’s posture. Same kind of ‘slinky’ stance as Doc who kind of adopts the kid.
And who is this -- Dickie Jones as Boy (uncredited) Someone had a Jones for Dickie?

Gorgeous b/w photo of Russell & Beutel. That was some beautiful young woman and High Hollywood made the most of it with superb lighting of their faces. Lot info in write up esp about her not wearing during film that Hughes-made bra device. She gave the beast a shot then did her own technical wardrobe functions. Film has been colorized twice.
Wikipedia’s first image is a colorized promo shot that could have been on many a warplane.

Mar 1, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011. "A joke at that time was that "Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw