Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

calvinnme ... and a fairly accurate depiction of how people in 1950 would have reacted to her. Too many people - then and now - believe in "the just world syndrome " in which they believe that a completely innocent person going about their business could never be victim of such a brutal crime, because if they did believe this was possible, then it could happen to them, and that is just too upsetting to people who think they have a good bead on the world and how it runs.It's interesting that director Ida Lupino tackled this difficult subject with as much reality as was possible with the production code in force, and that she also picked as the protagonist of the film a girl that looked very much like herself as a young woman - Mala Powers, only 19 when this film was made.The basic framework is that Mala's character, Ann Walton, is attacked by a complete stranger late at night in a small town while walking home from work. The whole town thus knows what happened to her, she is subject to staring and whispering, and then her boyfriend thinks the answer is to get married right away. But Ann feels dirty and doesn't want any man to touch her, and halfway thinks her beau is proposing - and wanting a quick wedding out of town - out of pity for her and to make an honest woman of her, but without the curiosity seekers that a big wedding might attract.A real telling scene is when she goes around her house, touching objects, as though she is a ghost of herself trying to remember what things were like before, and comes across a picture of herself at her first communion all decked out in white and smashes the picture, as though any purity in her died with the rape.She runs away from home - she is a grown woman so she is missing more than she is truant - and tries to pick up the pieces of her life, but still with the image of the man who attacked her haunting her. Big doses of Christianity are injected as to the cure to everything - after all this is 1950 - but I also objected to the implication of all of society's ills as being psychiatric in nature. The preacher at the end is basically saying that Ann is as mentally sick as the rapist! This was decades before society had to admit that some people are just evil and want what they want when they want it and we just need to throw away the key for the sake of the rest of us.No, I don't agree with every little thing Lupino said here, or maybe was forced to say due to the times, but it is worth watching and not that far off, at least from what victims go through in this kind of crime.

MartinHafer "Outrage" is a film way, way ahead of its time. To think...back in 1950 there was a movie that dealt with rape and its aftermath. It is an excellent film but it's also a film of its time--and in some ways it also gets the topic wrong. I am not blaming it--it's just that back in the day, there were a few misconceptions about the crime--though the film also is extremely sensitive and well worth seeing.Mala Powers plays Ann Walton, a young lady who is soon to be married. However, one night she is attacked and raped and she is left scared and traumatized. Her plight is so severe that she soon decides the best way to handle it is to run away and start an all new life. The trouble is, running away from her problems didn't solve them and soon she attacks a fresh guy and nearly kills him.First the good. Rape was never talked about or even alluded to back in 1950, so the film is very brave. Director Ida Lupino handled the rape scene wonderfully--making it menacing but not sensationalistic. Additionally, the film ended on a positive note--instilling a lot of hope.As for the bad, the film NEVER uses the word rape and the fact that it's a sexual assault is implied but only slightly. Again and again, they said that Ms. Walton was 'a victim of criminal assault'- -and so in that sense the film took a step forward but a smaller step than folks would like today. However, I doubt if the censors would have allowed this. I also thought that the film seemed to say that the man Walton bludgeoned (played by Jerry Paris) was a victim--whereas today he would be seen as being to blame because he refused to take no for an answer and NEEDED to be slapped upside the head with a wrench!! Additionally, the preacher had a speech about getting victims and offenders of all sorts therapy. While this is good for victims, time has shown us that psychotherapies are NOT effective with sex offenders in most cases. Still, they didn't realize this in the day and the film was very sincere in its efforts. Overall, the good clearly greatly outweighs the bad and the film is wonderfully made and a quality production throughout.

ivegonemod I really enjoyed the movie until the rape. When the rapist was chasing Ann, I couldn't understand why she kept stopping to look around. She stopped about ten times, I just couldn't understand it. When she came across the taxi cab, she didn't scream bloody murder, maybe they would have stopped? Maybe not.I also did not like how they kept having her fall and pass out or whatever during the chase, and once more when she was "on the run." So many things annoyed me. I hated how the people in her neighborhood and at work kept looking at her like she had done something wrong because she had been raped, it could have been any one of those women or one of the men's female loved ones.After she runs away, and is at a diner, a radio broadcast comes on saying that she has been missing. She covers her face. Why? There was no description given out. She only drew attention to herself.During the movie she behaved like a nut. She sees a police officer and starts acting so strange it only makes you pay more attention. She acted like she was a child who could be forced to go back to her hometown instead of a grown woman who could live wherever she pleased.

jenabaum I saw this little (only an hour and 15 minutes) movie last night, remarkable for it's subject matter (rape and its aftermath) and notable because it's director is Ida Lupino. It was interesting because rape is not a subject that was often depicted in dramatic features, albeit a B-level feature in the early 50's. The story was told in an honest way, and after I got used to the avoidance of the term "rape", substituted for "criminally attacked" (hey, this was the 50's and it did have to get an MPAA rating) I was kept interested for the rest of the film.