The Last Sunset

Well, you see cowboys aren't very bright. They're always broke and generally they're drunk. The Last Sunset is directed by Robert Aldrich and adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Howard Rigsby's novel Sundown at Crazy Horse. It stars Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotton and Carol Lynley. In support are Jack Elam, Neville Brand & James Westmoreland. The music score is by Ernest Gold, with contributions from Dimitri Tiomkin & Tomás Méndez, and Ernest Laszlo is the cinematographer. It's shot in Eastman Color by Pathe, with the locations for the shoot being Aguascalientes & Distrito…

Though the formula here is quite well tried and tested, there's quite a decent degree of chemistry on display here between both the slightly shiny-skinned Kirk Douglas and Rock Hudson and them and an on-form Dorothy Malone who brings something a little more to the her role than was typically seen by gals in westerns. Her "Belle" is married to the drunken wastrel "Breckenridge" (Joseph Cotton) when her old flame "O'Malley" (Douglas) turns up at their ranch looking for a refuge from the pursuing lawman with a grudge "Stribling" (Hudson). Simultaneously, the ranchers need help taking their herd…