Console best movie i've ever seen.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

MartinHafer Brendan O'Malley (Kirk Douglas) is a wanted man in Texas--that's why he's in Mexico when the film begins. A sheriff, Dana Stribling (Rock Hudson) has come from Texas looking to bring O'Malley back to face justice. It's not just because he's a lawman but because the man O'Malley shot was Stribling's brother-in-law.O'Malley comes upon a ranch run by the Breckinridges. Mrs. Breckinridge (Dorothy Malone) is a woman O'Malley loved many, many years ago. Now here is where the plot gets rather goofy--O'Malley agrees to help Mr. Breckinridge (Joseph Cotten) take his cattle to market...in Texas! This would mean exposing himself to arrest! But the plot only gets weirder-- Stribling soon arrives and signs on to help in this cattle drive!! And it's assumed when they get to Texas, Stribling will see O'Malley hang. So why does O'Malley continue with the drive?!?! Sure, he wants Mrs. Breckinridge--but why can't he just stop in Mexico and stay there?!Later, the film does get interesting. Over time, Stribling and O'Malley grow to like each other and you really don't know what they will do in Texas. Additionally, when Mrs. Breckinridge rejects O'Malley, the Breckingridge daughter, Missy (Carole Lynley) proclaims her love for O'Malley--even though he's old enough to be her father. In fact, that IS what happens--he learns that he's her father. Now this made the ending confusing--why would O'Malley deliberately goad Stribling into killing him?! Now IF O'Malley has had sex with Missy, then this would have made a lot more sense--a rare case where I wish that an older film had been a lot more explicit and creepy. This twist would have made the ending make a lot more sense. As it is, however, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.

jazerbini "The Last Sunset" has moments of great action typical of the great westerns, but others have very little expressiveness. Alternating good and bad times. Movies with Mexico as a backdrop have always success to perhaps due to difference in cultures quite distinct customs. It is worth remembering: "Vera Cruz", "The Professionals", "They Came to Cordura","The Wild Bunch", "The Magnificent Seven", "The Wonderful Country", "The Appaloosa" and "One-Eyed Jacks"(Marlon Brando) and "The Last Sunset" is one of them. Particularly admire the movie, but I believe that Aldrich could have it raised to a higher level making him one more western and less Greek tragedy. The story is undoubtedly a Greek tragedy. And exaggerated. Treat the poor character Linley as if it were completely ignorant. Continually lied to her. Would have a future on lies. And really "The Last Sunset" has some unfortunate mistakes. There are scenarios that poorly produced unconvincing as external locations; observing the rocks that appear in the very first scene, they arise at the end of the movie, when they reached the city, from another angle. In the same place, after so long a journey? The vest used by Hudson burning in the fight and then appears intact ! The shadows are not the duel sunset. And the performance of Hudson commits the movie. Terrible. Save up Douglas, Malone and Lynley. But has good western scenes with Joseph Cotten, Neville Brand and Jack Elam appearing very well. Has a certain value but could have been much better.

ksf-2 Director Aldrich must have known what he was doing... he produced AND directed Bette Davis in two pictures after making The Last Sunset! Kirk Douglas, Joseph Cotton, and Rock Hudson were all seasoned actors by the time this film was made. To a certain extent, this is a typical western, with the usual cattle drive, the fist-fights and gunfights, run-ins with the Indians, even Mariachi music, which was quite good. Through-out the film, you can feel the tension between Stribling (Hudson) and O'Malley (Douglas). Also along are a woman and her daughter (Dorothy Malone, Carol Lynley), adding more excitement to the mix. When three more suspicious characters join up to help on the drive, there is even more tension and mystery. We are told right off that Stribling has a warrant to bring in O'Malley, so we know to expect a showdown at some point. and when it DOES come, there are some surprises. I think its the strong talent that sets this western above the many others. This is part of the 2006 Rock Hudson DVD Collection from Universal, which also contains Has Anybody Seen my Gal, A Very Special Favor, Golden Blade, Spiral Road.

Michael_Elliott Last Sunset, The (1961) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Extremely bizarre melodrama hidden under the Western genre features a great cast but not much else. A Sheriff (Rock Hudson) is pursuing the man (Kirk Douglas) who killed his brother in law but Douglas ends up in a cattle drive for a man (Joseph Cotten) who is now married to Douglas' old love (Dorothy Malone). The Sheriff eventually enters the cattle drive the keep his eye on Douglas but soon he too falls for the woman. This is the type of film that should be shown on a woman's channel because it's really nothing more than a soap opera taking place in a western setting. The film really doesn't have too much going for it outside some very strange moments and its wonderful cast. Hudson sleepwalks through his role but even this remains somewhat entertaining. Douglas is good but nothing great while Malone is good in her role. Cotten steals the show as the drunk who fought in the Civil War. This film tries to throw just about everything into the mix and that includes drunken Mexicans, crazy Civil War vets, savage Indians and some good old fashioned incest. Half way through the film Douglas starts pimping on a new woman and it turns out to be his daughter! This leads to a pretty big laugh but the majority of the film is simply by the numbers and it runs way too long since we know where it's headed.