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The Last Sunset is a 1961 American Western film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, and Dorothy Malone . The film was released by Universal Pictures and shot in Eastmancolor in Mexico. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo was adapted from Howard Rigsby's 1957 novel Sundown at Crazy Horse .
Dalton Trumbo was brought on board for the second consecutive Bryna Production. His charge was to adapt Howard Rigsby's book Sundown at Crazy Horse into a fitting follow-up to Trumbo and Douglas' Roman slave revolt epic. To direct the picture, Douglas hired Robert Aldrich.
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.
Breathtakingly photographed adventure has three-dimensional characters, good writing by Dalton Trumbo and solid acting (particularly by Douglas and fresh-faced Carol Lynley, well-cast as a youngster with a crush on Kirk).
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.
James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).
Aug 5, 2019 · Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. Robert Aldrich (“Twilight’s Last Gleaming”/”Ulzana’s Raid”/”The Longest Yard”) directs a lyrical offbeat Western filled with Sirkian melodrama. It’s based on the novel Sundown at Crazy Horse by Howard Rigsby and is written by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.
