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Western, Drama 112 min NR
Rotten Tomatoes60%IMDb
When giants clash, a woman trembles!
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
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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 to Texas and "Stribling" has no jurisdiction when he catches up with his quarry so they come up with a compromise that will see the herd move north from Mexico into Texas. With both men clearly upfront about what awaits them when the reach the Rio Grande, the tension mounts steadily as they face the hazards of their cattle drive. There is romance to be found here, but Malone - though not always helped by the sometimes too soporific Ernest Gold score - tries her best to keep the sentiment to a minimum and assert a stronger character to combat the characters of the mischievous Douglas and the mor
Read the whole review on TMDBWell, 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 Federal in Mexico. Brendan O'Malley (Douglas) is on the run and drifts into Mexico where he arrives at the home of old flame Belle Breckenridge (Malone). She resides with her drunkard husband John (Cotton) and her daughter Melissa, they are in preparation for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling (Hudson) who has a very personal reason for getting him back for justice to be served. Making an uneasy agreement, both men join the Breckenridge's on the drive. As they near Texas the tensions start to mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle an
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