I Fuorilegge was based on the career of the late and unlamented Sicilian bandit chieftain Giuliamo. Ermanno Randi plays the Giuliamo counterpart, here renamed Cosimo. The film unfolds in a sketchy, anecdotal fashion, concluding with a reasonably faithful recreation of the events leading up to the bandit's capture. In the film, Cosimo is killed by the police; in real life, Giuliamo was still alive--but not for long. For box-office insurance, Vittorio Gassman and Umberto Spadaro appear in secondary roles. Though director Aldo Vergano made no secret of sentiments in his previous films, I Fuorilegge is admirably objective, permitting the viewer to decide whether Giuliamo was hero or villain. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi