Synopsis
The Last Sunset (1961) is a Robert Aldrich Western you can watch online on iFILM. It turns on two men on opposite sides of the law whose paths fuse together on a long cattle drive out of Mexico and up into Texas.
Fugitive O'Malley (Kirk Douglas) and the sheriff hunting him, Stribling (Rock Hudson), strike an odd truce: both sign on to help rancher Breckenridge move his herd across the border. South of the line the lawman can't make an arrest; north of it he can, and they both know it. The trek pulls the two enemies closer than either wants. The rancher's wife and her young daughter tangle an already loaded situation, threading a smoldering personal drama through the cattle dust.
The screenplay came from Dalton Trumbo, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten, and there's more psychology here than gunplay. Douglas and Hudson carry the picture on the silent tension between their characters, and the ending lands hard and unavoidable. It suits anyone who likes the grown-up Westerns of the 1960s, where character outweighs the chase. Stream The Last Sunset (1961) online on iFILM.
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