Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Day of the Outlaw is a 1959 American Western film starring Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, and Tina Louise. It was directed by Andre de Toth; this was de Toth's final Western feature film.