The Outsider (1961)

The Outsider (1961) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Delbert Mann

Written By:
William Bradford Huie
Stewart Stern

Actors:
Tony Curtis ..... Ira Hamilton Hayes
James Franciscus ..... Pvt. James B. Sorenson
Gregory Walcott ..... Sgt. Kiley
Bruce Bennett ..... Gen. Bridges
Vivian Nathan ..... Nancy Hayes
Edmund Hashim ..... Jay Morago
Paul Comi ..... Sgt. Boyle
Stanley Adams ..... Noomie
Wayne Heffley ..... Cpl. Johnson
Ralph Moody ..... Uncle
Jeffrey Silver ..... McGruder
James Beck ..... Tyler
Forrest Compton ..... Pharmacist Mate John H. Bradley
Pete Homer ..... Mr. Alvarez
Mary Patton ..... Chairlady

Synopsis:

This is an uneven melodrama on the tragic life of Pima Indian Ira Hayes, one of the men who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. The story picks up with Hayes (Tony Curtis) leaving his reservation in Arizona to join the Marines, enter boot camp, and start to adapt to the life of a Marine. Hayes becomes good friends with Sorenson (James Franciscus), and it is this friendship that sustains him in a white man's world. But as time goes by and the moment immortalized on Iwo Jima ends, Hayes goes into a decline, being unconvinced there was any heroism involved in his actions during the war and never being able to adjust to civilian life. At this point in time, no one recognized the afflictions common to all soldiers after long years in battle, and the death of Sorenson is blamed for Hayes' downfall.

The 17-year-old Ira Hamilton Hayes has never been off the Pima reservation in Arizona when he enlists in the United States Marine Corps to serve his country in World War II. Hayes is shunned by fellow soldiers or mocked as 'Chief' by them except for one, Jim Sorenson. By chance they are two of the five U.S. servicemen who memorably hoist the American flag on Mt. Suribachi during the violent battle at Iwo Jima, after which Sorenson is killed by enemy fire. A morose and traumatized Hayes returns home, where he is proclaimed a hero and recruited to help sell war bonds to the public. As his depression mounts, Hayes, feeling unworthy of the attention and publicity, takes refuge in whiskey. His continued drunkenness becomes a public scandal. Hayes simply wishes to be left alone, but a tribal chief implores him to go to Washington, D.C., on his people's behalf to seek political support for an irrigation bill. Not until he visits an Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington, Virginia does he sober up and pull himself together. Hayes returns to the reservation, but is deeply disappointed when the tribal council no longer seems to want anything to do with him. He begins drinking again and goes off into the hills, where he dies of exposure to the elements ten years after the Iwo Jima battle. He is 32.

The Outsider is a 1961 biopic film about Ira Hayes, a Native American who fought in World War II in the United States Marine Corps and was one of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. The film stars Tony Curtis as Hayes. It was directed by Delbert Mann.

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