"Events in crisis are laid out like cards on a table at the opening of a Lupino film," wrote Action. This one opens with a signature telegraphed image-a coffee cup slides down a factory lunch counter, pushed by the hand of a rapist. In Outrage, Lupino dissects a rape and its aftereffects from the point of view both of the victim and her unwitting victimizers-the morbid, voyeuristic, "guilty" members of a suburban Midwest community. (The victim's father complains, with a characteristic Lupino double edge, "They look at me as though I had done something!") After Ann Waldon (Mala Powers) is brutally attacked, Lupino follows her humiliation and her painful steps toward regeneration and assumption of power in relation to men- connected inextricably to her escape from home.