{"id":40191,"date":"2025-10-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40191"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:57:15","slug":"the-outfit-1973-starring-robert-duvall-karen-black-joe-don-baker-and-robert-ryan-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40191","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Outfit&#8221; (1973) starring Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z100625zview_theoutfit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Outfit <\/strong><\/em>(1973)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>John Flynn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Flynn, Walter Hill <\/strong>(uncredited); based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48c6Fkv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE OUTFIT<\/a> by<strong> Richard Stark<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey, Richard Jaeckel, <\/strong> <strong>Sheree North,<\/strong> <strong>Felice Orlandi, Marie Windsor, Jane Greer, Henry Jones, Joanna Cassidy, Tom Reese, Bill McKinney, Anita O&#8217;Day, Archie Moore, Tony Young<\/strong> and <strong>Elisha Cook Jr.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Nobody plays rougher than The Outfit&#8230;Except maybe Earl, Cody and Bett!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Earl Macklin gets out of prison, his girlfriend Bett picks him up.\u00a0 She drives to a motel and informs Earl that his brother was recently murdered.\u00a0 Late that night a man breaks into the hotel room and attempts to kill Earl.\u00a0 Earl survives and gets the upper hand.\u00a0 He then tortures the man for information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earl&#8217;s brother robbed a syndicate bank.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the reason he was killed.\u00a0 They sent the killer to take out Earl so he wouldn&#8217;t seek revenge.\u00a0 Earl lets the killer live on the condition he takes a message to the people that hired him.\u00a0 The message: The Outfit owes him $250,000.00.\u00a0 If they pay, Earl will go away.\u00a0 Until they do, Earl is going to cost them money that he&#8217;ll keep.\u00a0 And they will still owe him the quarter million.<\/p>\n<p>Earl wants his money.\u00a0 And he doesn&#8217;t care how many people he has to kill to get it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Film legend, Robert Ryan&#8217;s last released film. He was also in <em>Executive Action<\/em> filmed after <em>The Outfit,<\/em> but released first.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Outfit<\/em> features Joanna Cassidy&#8217;s film debut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore has a role as a tough guy.\u00a0 Moore held the light heavyweight boxing title for ten years &#8212; longer than any champ in that division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The great (and eccentric) character actor Timothy Carey appears in a supporting role.\u00a0 Same could be said of Elisha Cook, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Outfit <\/strong><\/em>(1973) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z100625zview_theoutfit2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Outfit (1973) Director:\u00a0 John Flynn Screenplay: John Flynn, Walter Hill (uncredited); based on THE OUTFIT by Richard Stark Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40192,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191\/revisions\/40192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}