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Last Train from Gun Hill is a 1959 American Western film in VistaVision and Technicolor, directed by John Sturges. It stars Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn and Earl Holliman. Douglas and Holliman had previously appeared together in Sturges' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), which used much of the same crew.
Last Train from Gun Hill: Directed by John Sturges. With Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman. 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.
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The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. Belden is sympathetic, until it transpires that one of the murderers is his own son Rick, whom he refuses to hand over.
Last Train from Gun Hill begins with the brutal rape and murder of a young Indian woman (Ziva Rodann) by two drunken cowthugs, Rick Belden (Holliman) and his loyal friend Lee Smithers (Brian G. Hutton). But the woman isn't alone; her young son witnesses the initial assault, and escapes on Holliman's horse.
Director John Sturges' Western thriller Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) is immediately brutal starting with the senseless rape and murder of an innocent Native American...
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Apr 30, 2022 · No one reported the theft of two horses in Pawley, let alone a prized saddle. And he suspects the killer with a cut on his face might be Beldon’s son. Problem is, bringing him to justice in Gun Hill won’t be easy. It’s a town run by Beldon, and those who defy him typically wind up in boot hill.
In Arizona, a justice-minded marshal (Kirk Douglas) apprehends the criminal son (Earl Holliman) of a big time rancher (Anthony Quinn) and is determined to take him back to his town via the 9:00 PM train. But the rancher & his cronies mean to stop it, whatever the cost. Carolyn Jones is on hand.
C ombining key narrative elements from 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and The Bravados (1958), John Sturges’ Last Train from Gun Hill is a powerful revenge western that projects a film noir ethos despite taking place among just a handful of characters in a single tiny town.
Marshal Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas) journeys to the town of Gun Hill in order to find the men who raped and murdered his wife, but discovers that one is the son of old friend Craig Belden (Anthony Quinn), in John Sturges’ western, with Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman and Brad Dexter in supporting roles.
