Paramount Presents: Last Train from Gun Hill [Blu-ray]

Director: John Sturges, Hal B. Wallis John Sturges

Overview

John Sturges' western suspense tale stars Kirk Douglas as a lawman searching for the outlaw (Earl Holliman) who raped and killed his wife.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/15/2021
UPC:	0032429355300
Original Release:	1959
Rating:	NR
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	17,006

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kirk Douglas	Actor
Anthony Quinn	Actor
Carolyn Jones	Actor
Earl Holliman	Actor
Ziva Rodann	Catherine Morgan
Brad Dexter	Beero
Brian Hutton	Lee,Actor
Bing Russell	Skag
Val Avery	Bartender,Townsman
Eric Alden	Actor
Frank Hagney	One of Craig's Men
Len Hendry	Man in Lobby
Ricky Kelman	Boy,Junge
Mike Mahoney	Drummer on Train
Hank Mann	Storekeeper
Walter Sande	Actor
William Newell	Hoteldiener
Lars Henderson	Petey Morgan, Matts Sohn
Tony Russo	Pinto
Carl Saxe	Actor
Dabbs Greer	Andy, Morgans Hilfsheriff
Charles Stevens	Keno
John Anderson	Händler
Glenn Strange	Saloon Bouncer
Kenneth Becker	Cowboy
Frank Carter	Cowboy im Zug
Julius Tannen	Cleaning Man
Sayre Dearing	Zugpassagier
Sid Tomack	Roomer
Henry Wills	Jake
Ty Hardin	Cowboy
Mark Roberts	Conductor
Kenner G. Kemp	Wartender Zugreisender
Jack Lomas	Charlie, Saloonbesitzer
Mara Lynn	Minnie
Court Shepard	Cowboy
Michael Bachus	Townsmen
Dimitri Tiomkin	Composer

Technical Credits

James Poe

Les Crutchfield

John Sturges	Director
Hal B. Wallis	Producer,Director
James Poe	Screenwriter
Farciot Edouart	Special Effects
Eric Alden	Stunts
Winston H. Leverett	Sound Effects
Les Crutchfield	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Last Train From Gun Hill is one of John Sturges' less well regarded movies from the late '50s, for reasons that are difficult to fathom. That it should stand in the shadow of The Magnificent Seven (1960), with the latter's all-star cast and epic storyline, is understandable, but it also enjoys a less substantial reputation than Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), which is ironic since Sturges himself never thought of the latter as much more than a somewhat profitable directorial assignment. In terms of its story, Last Train From Gun Hill offers striking parallels with Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), which is usually regarded as Sturges' masterpiece. Both movies' plots unfold around acts of violence committed for racist reasons; both involve lone heroes, trapped in isolated, unfriendly towns where they've come to do a job setting some injustice right, and end up fighting for their lives; and both involve villains who, despite enjoying the support of most of the townspeople around them, end up not only losing their respective battles but inadvertently causing the death of the person closest to them. Kirk Douglas has a role that is an ideal vehicle for the intensity that he can bring to the screen, as the aggrieved town marshal looking for the two men who raped and murdered his wife. And Anthony Quinn, playing a part filled with great moral ambiguity than was customary for this era in movies (especially Westerns), is his match as the basically decent man whose biggest crime was raising a rotten, cowardly, murderous son, but who will do anything to protect that son. Earl Holliman, graduating to major roles after supporting parts in movies such as Sturges' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, gives one of his best performances as the spoiled, sniveling coward of a son, who ultimately evokes a slight degree of pity to go with the obvious contempt that he deserves. Carolyn Jones turns in one of her always on-target performances as a fallen woman seeking to restore her dignity and independence, and Brad Dexter -- who was so strangely invisible in The Magnificent Seven -- gives one of the best performances of his career as Beero, the tough, calculating foreman of Quinn's ranch. With a suspense element similar to that of High Noon -- the clock is ticking in the viewer's consciousness from the moment that Douglas' character vows to take Holliman's Rick Belden out of town and to trial on the last train, at 9:00 p.m. -- the result is a highly suspenseful film built around a fascinating array of characters.