The Last Sunset (1961)

Storyline

Brendan O’Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O’Malley’s heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O’Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy. The Last Sunset, the 1961 Robert Aldrich cowboy western (“As Powerful As Both Love And Hate Is The Clash Of These Men!”; “Based on the novel by Howard Rigsby”; “Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo”) starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, and Neville Brand