A very underrated film. Robert Aldrich's "The Last Sunset"offers all the pleasures of a thoroughly old-fashioned western yet it has a nicely complex script from Dalton Trumbo that draws heavily on character rather than action, (although there is plenty of that, as well). Kirk Douglas is the man on the run, Rock Hudson his pursuer who find themselves working together on a cattle drive. Joseph Cotten is the man who hires them and Dorothy Malone is Cotten's wife who used to be an old flame of Douglas. They are all excellent and there's a good supporting cast that includes Carol Lynley and Neville Brand. Ernest Laszlo was responsible for the first-rate cinematography and while the film isn't in the front rank of Aldrich movies it is still very fine.
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