After watching The Aviator, I became more aware of Howard Hughes career as a producer and director of films and wished to watch more of his films. The Outlaw is one of his more notable films, and at the time was a source of great controversy, due to the "prominence" of Jane Russell's breasts, which now a days is not enough to even cause anyone to raise an eyebrow.
The film is good, and apparently is very well regarded, especially for a western, and while it was a decent film to watch is not overwhelmingly noteworthy to me.
One thing that did is perplexing is that the two main characters are Doc Holiday and Billie the Kid. It's odd that these two historical characters were used in a completely fictional story. Why not use new characters? The use of established characters in a unrelated story seems uncommon for the era this film was made in, but now is too common. Too many films take establish characters, stories and even TV shows and makes a completely unrelated film. This has worked well in rare instances, most commonly in Disney's animated films such as The Little Mermaid, and strangely enough Brian De Plama's remake of Howard Hughes own Scarface film.
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