Awesome Movie

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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."

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

***SPOILERS*** Said to have inspire the movie "Get Carter " ten years later the film "Get Outta Town" is about ex-hood & safe-cracker Kelly Olsen, Doug Wilson, who comes to town-L.A-to attend his kid brother Tommy's funeral to find out that he was murdered after a blotch mob hit that his boss messed up by killing the wrong person. With Tommy's boss trying to save his butt from the syndicate for his actions he had Tommy act as the fall-guy, without him knowing about it, to take the blame as well as hit by those that they both worked for: The L.A Mob Syndicate.Right away Kelly runs into interference by the L.A cops in the persons of Sgt. Willis & Officer Kemper, Frank Harding & Steve Bradley, who tell him he's not wanted here in L.A-good for him-and to get out of town as soon as possible or at least after he attends Tommy's funeral. Still determined to find Tommy's killer Kelly checks out all the places and people that Tommy was involved in by getting to the bottom of his murder. He gets no help from his, as well as Tommy's, mom Mrs.Olsen,Beppie De Vires , who literally kicks him out of her apartment and calls the cops on him and his girlfriend Claire, Marilyn O'Connor, who holds Kelly responsible for Tommy's murder.***SPOILERS**** The very unsurprising ending-In that we as well as Kelly by then knew Tommy's killer's identity- has Kelly find out who Tommy's killer really was and while confronting him allows him to make a run for it, Kelly didn't have the heart to kill him, straight into the arms of Sgt.Willis & Officer Kemper who were waiting for him in the building lobby. Not being able to distinguish the plain clothes police from the mob hit-men sent out to knock him off Tommy's killer shoots it out with them ending up dead even before he makes it to the street: Where a number of L.A policemen armed to the teeth are waiting to arrest him. With his job now over in finding his brother's killer and bringing him to justice-Street justice-Kelly can now finally get outta of town-like everyone wanted him to- together with his old girlfriend Jill, Jeanne Baird, and get back to his old job that he was last employed at the San Francisco fish market: Sure like Kelly says it smells but at least it's an honest living.

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').

"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.

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.