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Last Train from Gun Hill

  • 1959
  • Passed
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Earl Holliman, and Ziva Rodann in Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
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Western

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.

  • Director
    • John Sturges
  • Writers
    • Les Crutchfield
    • James Poe
  • Stars
    • Kirk Douglas
    • Anthony Quinn
    • Carolyn Jones
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    8.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • John Sturges
    • Writers
      • Les Crutchfield
      • James Poe
    • Stars
      • Kirk Douglas
      • Anthony Quinn
      • Carolyn Jones
    • 89User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Earl Holliman, and Carolyn Jones in Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
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    Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas
    • Marshal Matt Morgan
    Anthony Quinn
    Anthony Quinn
    • Craig Belden
    Carolyn Jones
    Carolyn Jones
    • Linda
    Earl Holliman
    Earl Holliman
    • Rick Belden
    Brad Dexter
    Brad Dexter
    • Beero
    Brian G. Hutton
    Brian G. Hutton
    • Lee Smithers
    • (as Brian Hutton)
    Ziva Rodann
    Ziva Rodann
    • Catherine Morgan
    Bing Russell
    Bing Russell
    • Skag
    Val Avery
    Val Avery
    • Steve, Horseshoe Bartender'
    Walter Sande
    Walter Sande
    • Sheriff Bartlett
    Eric Alden
    Eric Alden
    • Craig's Man
    • (uncredited)
    John Anderson
    John Anderson
    • Salesman in Horseshoe
    • (uncredited)
    Emile Avery
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Michael Bachus
    • Townsmen
    • (uncredited)
    Kenneth Becker
    • Cowboy
    • (uncredited)
    George Bell
    George Bell
    • Barfly
    • (uncredited)
    William 'Billy' Benedict
    William 'Billy' Benedict
    • Small Man in Horseshoe
    • (uncredited)
    Arthur Berkeley
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • John Sturges
    • Writers
      • Les Crutchfield
      • James Poe
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    • Trivia
      During the final shootout, Morgan was supposed to beat Smithers to the draw. However, the actor playing Smithers, Brian G. Hutton kept beating Douglas to the draw. Finally it was decided that Douglas should be holding a shotgun thereby ending that argument. Afterwards Douglas remarked "Can you imagine that upstart beating me to the draw?" Anthony Quinn said, "Don't worry about it Kirk we'll get him in the editing room."
    • Goofs
      On its way to Gun Hill, the train has four cars. By the time it reaches the station, there are only two, and the baggage car is a different one than before.
    • Quotes

      Gun Hill Sheriff Bartlett: Far as I'm concerned, you can go out on the street and get yourself killed anytime you want to, but, you know something, 40 years from now the weeds'll grow just as pretty on my grave as they will on yours. Nobody'll even remember that I was yellow and you died like a fool. That's your long view, son. Always take the long view.

      Marshal Matt Morgan: I've got two warrants, and I'm gonna serve them. I'm leavin' town with two men, and the long view is this: don't try to stop me!

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    8/10
    a very fine western in due to its mounting complex look at justice and star power
    Last Train from Gun Hill has the star power to help back up a storyline that is, on the surface, seemingly too straightforward: a Marshall (Kirk Douglas) finds that his wife has been killed. When he finds out that it is the son of a cattle baron (Anthony Quinn), despite his old friendship with the baron, he decides to bring the son to justice, holding him by gunpoint in the town hotel until the train comes to take them off to jail- while the baron has his men outside with their guns poised. There's a touchy element to who the son (played as a snidely little kid in Earl Holliman) killed, which was that the Marshall's wife was a Native American. But more impressive in the script, and through John Sturges's steadfast professionalism, is how there's the tension between law and the personal, the immediate draw of a gun draw to solve anything, and the bitterness of real vengeance (watch Douglas's Marshall tell Rick about how he'll be the only one to hear his own brain cry out as he hangs dying, perfectly acted).

    Although it's likely that Douglas and Sturges were in or made better westerns, this is the kind of work that doesn't age in much a way that cheapens the questions poised or the invigorating style. It's a fairly violent film too, with a couple of deaths by the train tracks at night all the more effective from the taunting build-up and the pay-off in one shotgun fired off, and always the threat much more tension-filled than the result. Granted, when a big fire ends up happening, it looks very much like it's on a sound-stage and without a whole lot of suspense (save for the typical but strong 'who will get the gun first' moment between the Marshall and Rick in the bedroom), but it's the ambiance of the characters, the dread over this dangerous mix of volatile father and townsman- a better than average Quinn without being too hammy- and a good man driven to vengeance in bad-ass Douglas, and the determined woman (Carolyn Jones) that makes it so compelling. There's even a slight feeling of unpredictability in the situation- in a town where reputation trumps what is good and decent, but also where emotions run high as can be, the stakes are high for chance.

    By the very end it feels like it should be more formulaic, and there are bits where the dialog does come off as brawny ol' western genre jargon (look simply at some of the quotes on the IMDb page as example). But if you happen to come across it on TV one Sunday afternoon, as I did, it's worth the time to sit and get absorbed by a well done star vehicle.
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    • Aug 26, 2007

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    • Release date
      • October 23, 1959 (Ireland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Last Train from Harper's Junction
    • Filming locations
      • Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
    • Production companies
      • Bryna Productions
      • Wallis-Hazen
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,500,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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