The Last Sunset (film)
The Last Sunset is a 1961 American Western film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, and Dorothy Malone.The supporting cast features Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand and Jack Elam.Brendan O'Malley crosses the border into Mexico to escape justice for a murder, pursued by Sheriff Dana Stribling.O'Malley accepts under condition that he is paid with one fifth of the herd, and he tells Breckenridge he will take his wife once the cattle drive is finished.Although Stribling and O'Malley try to save Breckenridge's life, Breckinridge is shot in the back and killed trying to leave the bar.On the eve of the showdown between the two men, Belle discloses the secret that Missy is the daughter of O'Malley and their incestuous love cannot continue.[5] In December 1959, it was announced Douglas and Rock Hudson would star in Day of the Gun from the novel by Howard Vechel, filming to begin in March 1960 in Aguascalientes, Mexico.[9] Tuesday Weld then was cast but was unable to do it due to delays on High Time so Carol Lynley played the role.Aldrich later said he was "dead broke" at the time after having made "two bad pictures" in Europe and spent months on an unsuccessful attempt to make a film of Taras Bulba.