The Last of the Fast Guns
His Name Was Written With Bullets...
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
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'Last of the Fast Guns' (1958) ♦Classic♦ Theatrical Trailer
Cast
Jock Mahoney
Brad Ellison
Gilbert Roland
Miles Lang
Linda Cristal
Maria O'Reilly
Eduard Franz
Padre Jose
Lorne Greene
Michael O'Reilly
Carl Benton Reid
John Forbes
Edward Platt
Sam Grypton
Eduardo Noriega
Cordoba
Rafael Alcayde
Alcade
José Chávez
Jose Garcia
Francisco Reiguera
Pablo
Richard H. Cutting
Sheriff
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Reviews
John Chard
Oh Brother!
The Last of the Fast Guns is directed by George Sherman and written by David P. Harman. It stars Jock Mahoney, Gilbert Roland, Linda Cristal, Eduard Franz and Lorne Greene. Music is by Joseph Gershenson and cinematography by Alex Phillips.
Gunslinger Brad Ellison (Mahoney) is hired by a rich tycoon to find his long lost brother. The trail leads to Mexico where hostility and intrigue ensue.
There's nothing overtly fresh about this as per plotting, but it delivers good qualities via some interesting twists and turns. From the sombre beginning it's evident that the makers have contemplation in mind for the narrative drive. Ellison is the last of a dying breed, and he knows it, so should he achieve the task to hand, the $25,000 he will earn could shape his future. As he sets about his detective work, tests come and go, while he is befriended by Miles Lang (Roland) and finds himself flirting with Maria O'Reilly (Cristal). But is everything as it seems? Cast are made of stoic stock, though Cristal is purely eye candy token. Pic is very airy and the Mexican vistas, filmed in CinemaScope/Eastman Color, are gorgeous.
A good meaty Oater that's well mounted, so recommended for genre fans. 7/10
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