GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Richard Chatten Carrying a 1960 copyright date but with a decidedly 50's feel, the plot, mood and vivid use of locations of this ultra cheap gangster movie shot out and about in Los Angeles all remarkably anticipate 'Get Carter' ten years later. Aided by excellent photography by Larry Raimond and second unit cameraman Meridith Nicholson and a rousing jazz score by Bill Holman, Bob Wehling's script is crammed with crackling film noir dialogue. Maybe too much; good as much of the talk is it's at the expense of visual exposition, it's rather slackly paced, and the tremendous dialogue is not always done justice by the frequently amateurish acting.Described by a cop as "Rough as a stucco bathtub", co-producer Douglas Wilson as ex-safe cracker Kelly Oleson looks rather middle-aged in the lead, and almost as old as the actress playing his mother. But we meet some hot chicks along the way, hottest of all being gangster's moll Marilyn O'Connor, who we're expected to believe Kelly slept with solely in the line of duty (like James Bond and Fiona Volpe in 'Thunderball').

MartinHafer "Get Outta Town" is an amazing film. After all, it features a leading man who only made six films (this was his last) and isn't exactly the Hollywood type. It also features a lot of other rather unknown actors. It also has a budget that appears to be negligible. Yet, inexplicably, it's a very good film! I love seeing films like this--little hidden gems just waiting to be discovered.The plot of "Get Outta Town" is very, very similar to that of the Michael Caine film "Get Carter". However, its character is a bit different and the resolution very different.It all begins when Kelly learns that his younger brother died. Kelly was a hood and the last time he was in his hometown, folks were afraid of him. Not surprisingly, his mother and ex-girlfriend want nothing to do with him--he's bad news. Yet, he insists that he's changed and wants to turn his life around once and for all. However, his resolution to change is challenged when he learned that his brother MIGHT have been murdered--and he's out for revenge.Except for a few problems with the ending (it came a bit too quickly and Kelly behaved a bit oddly when confronted by the police), it was a very good film. I liked the dialog and Wilson's acting was surprisingly strong. If you like film noir, this is up your alley. While it isn't quite as dark as many films in the genre, it is a nice tough little picture.

gordonl56 Doug Wilson is a reformed small time hood who hits LA after a 3 year absence. He has just heard about the death of his younger brother in an accident. He wants to go to the funeral and make peace with his mother.Because Wilson had been a real hard-case in the past, no one swallows that he is on the straight and narrow now. Not his, mother, not his ex-girlfriend, not the cops, and not the local mob.After a sit down with the ex, Jeanne Braid, Wilson discovers that his little brother's death had been anything but an accident. He decides to dig into it and see what he can find out.Wilson first questions the bartender and waitress at the bar where his brother met his untimely end. They of course, saw nothing. Wilson then decides to look up the two former members of his hold-up crew. He hits the bars and bookie joints till he finds the first, Lee Kross. Kross now runs a small time crew that make a living doing break-ins of liquor stores. He has just gotten out of prison on a 2 year bit.Wilson grills him on his brother's death. Kross tells him he knows nothing about it, but that Tony Louis, the third member of Wilson's old crew, might. Louis has moved up in the world and is now a made guy in the mob. Kross gives Wilson the address of a bar and bookie joint Louis now runs. Kross also warns Wilson not to trust Louis anymore, "He runs with a new crowd," he tells Wilson.Wilson hits the bookie joint where he runs into Marilyn O'Connor. O'Connor was a hanger on in the old days, but is now married to Louis. It takes all of 10 seconds for O'Connor to offer Wilson a taste. Wilson pretends to be interested but just wants to know where her husband is.Louis finally shows and seems somewhat rattled that Wilson is there. Louis invites Wilson up to his apartment for a talk. He tells Wilson that he likewise knows nothing about the brother's death, but offers to help. "We have an interest in the bar where he died, maybe I can get them to talk." The two have a talk with the bar staff but nothing new is learned. Louis says goodnight and heads home. Wilson goes off for a walk and a smoke. Several minutes later a car pulls up. Three large men with a definite anti-social bent, pile out of the auto and proceed to pummel Wilson.Five minutes later, a bloodied Wilson picks himself up and staggers off to the ex's place to recover. "I must have upset someone", he mutters to himself.The next day, a couple of Police detectives, Frank Harding and Steve Bradley, grab Wilson up. There had been a robbery the night before that fits his m.o. The ex gives him an alibi. Harding and Bradley tell Wilson he best be on the train out of town a hour after his brother's funeral.Later that morning, Wilson goes to have another word with Kross at his warehouse. He gets there just in time to see Kross and his boys being hauled away by the Police. As Kross passes Wilson on the way to the paddy wagon, he asks for a light. He then whispers to Wilson that his brother was involved in a mob hit.Wilson now beats the feet over to the Louis apartment. No Louis, but O'Connor is willing to go a couple of rounds of clutch and grab if Wilson wants. Wilson complies hoping to get some info on Louis. He sees there is a packed suitcase by the front door. He has a quick look-see while O'Connor is fixing a drink. "Louis is going out of town on business" O'Connor says.Louis now shows. He sees Wilson and pulls a piece out of his suitcase. Louis waves the piece towards the door and Wilson takes the hint. Needless to say that Wilson now knows who killed his brother.Louis takes Wilson over to Braid's apartment. Louis intends to kill Wilson and Braid and make it look like a murder suicide. Wilson asks why Louis killed his brother. Louis tells him that he had used his brother, a mechanic, to build him a trigger for a bomb. Louis wanted to move up in the mob and had pulled a hit on a rival. When the hit went wrong, Wilson's brother was simply a loose end that needed to be tidied up.Louis points the automatic and pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. Wilson steps up and decks Louis. Wilson then pulls the pistol's magazine from his own coat pocket. "I lifted it from the gun when I looked through your suitcase." Louis now breaks down and admits he sent the men to give him the beating. Louis just wanted to scare Wilson off. Louis begs Wilson to let him go. He needs to grab a train and leave town before the mob figures out the botched hit was his doing.Wilson loads the gun and hands it back to to Louis. Louis says thanks and heads out the door and down the stairs. Waiting at the bottom are Detectives, Harding and Bradley. Louis starts blasting with the Police returning fire. Louis loses the exchange and is left in a heap on the stairs.Wilson, listening upstairs, just smiles. He knew the Police had been following him.A quick and to the point 62 minute quickie! Some really nice location shooting here with nary a sound stage in sight. The whole cast and crew rises above the low-low budget.

jimddddd When ex-small-time criminal Kelly Olson returns to Los Angeles for his kid brother's funeral, not many people are happy to see him. Not his mother, not his ex-girlfriend, not the cops, and not local hood Rico Lanari. Kelly insists he's gone straight, but nobody believes him. Convinced his brother was murdered, he slips back into his thug ways to get a few answers from a bunch of low-lifes. The acting is okay, the dialog is snappy, and the characters (all unknowns) are realistically sleazy. At a crisp 63 minutes, it feels like one of those high-velocity short stories by guys like Paul Cain and Dashiell Hammett in Black Mask magazine circa 1933. The film gets great support from its gritty locations, namely Bunker Hill and the rooms, corridors, balconies and stairways of the faded Dome Hotel on Grand and Second streets, which would soon afterward be destroyed in a mysterious fire that killed a number of people. Doug Wilson, who plays Kelly, and director Charlie Davis produced "Get Outta Town" with their own money, supposedly, and Beckman Film Corp. released it at some point under the name "Gangster's Revenge." The film credits say: "Get Outta Town," not "Get Out of Town." It's been released on DVD, but it's hard to find, but that shouldn't stop you from looking. It's a lot more convincing than many studio gangster films I've seen from the forties and fifties.