I remember this on HBO yrs ago,
Added 11/21/2009
The leader of a band of outlaws is betrayed by his second in command who takes his place as the band's leader. The rest of the movie consists of the old leader helping a posse track down his old buddies. Good story. The acting was hit and miss, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
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best western ever
Added 10/22/2009
i think this movie tops tombstone , showdown at ok corral and many others.best ever.
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American-made Spaghetti Western
Added 9/28/2009
No, by spaghetti western, I don't mean the zany ones. I mean the brutal, dirty ones that introduced America to a revisionist west that was uglier than the Zane Gray fantasies, such as the Django series, Lee Van Clief's movies, and the Leone films that started it all.
Mickey Rourke is effective as a sadistic, almost reptilian leader of a gang of ex-confederate raiders-turned-bank robbers. When his brutality goes too far even for his own gang to stomache, he is shot and left for dead. A posse hunting the gang finds him and is about to execute him when he makes a deal with them to track down his own gang, much against the better judgement of the sheriff who thinks it a bargain with the devil. The sheriff's reservations about the deal prove to be well-founded; As Rourke's character helps to track down and murder his ex-fellows one at a time, he slowly starts to gain control of the weak-minded members of the posse until, by the climax of the film, they have killed off the reputable members of the posse and in effect become his new gang.
The film maintains a good, steady pace with no distracting sub-plots to slow the story. Violent and un-sentimental, this movie may not be for everyone. One interesting character is a black ex-confederate soldier/gang member (yes, the south had their own black soldiers even though hollywood wouldn't want you to know that). Though the PC crowd might find this character's voodoo predictions as steretypical, bear in mind that southerners were (and still are) superstitious in general, and in the film, the other gang members hang on this character's every prediction as meaningful.
This was a made-for-HBO production filmed around 1990, but the picture quality is unusually sharp, more so than most new movies on DVD today as it appears to have been published in ED or "Enhanced Definition". Though not as sharp as HD, it is a way to fit more visual information onto the disc while maintaining the regular DVD format so it will play on any DVD player. If a lesser known feature such as this can be put out in ED, why can't they make all DVDs this way, especially some of these big-budget features they hype about so much?
At any rate, this is one of my all-time favorite westerns, and I'm glad to see that in this one instance, the studio did it justice.
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The Last Outlaw
Added 2/12/2009
Very pleased with the condition of this product from Amazon. Have been looking for this movie for some time now, and was pleased to find it in such good shape. I will continue to shop at Amazon.
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I watch it over and over..it is that good
Added 1/23/2009
I bought this movie about 7 years ago and I still think it is one of the best westerns. Mickey Rourke is excellent (as usual) and so is the rest of the cast. I especially like the scenery and the way the movie shows us a dirty, dusty trail that makes it more enjoyable than watching a bunch of guys riding around the country in CLEAN clothes. That just is not as believeable since you cannot possibly stay clean in that environement.
It is somewhat violent but again that adds to the realism. I have the VHS tape and just bought a DVD to upgrade.
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!
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I remember this on HBO yrs ago,
Added 11/21/2009
The leader of a band of outlaws is betrayed by his second in command who takes his place as the band's leader. The rest of the movie consists of the old leader helping a posse track down his old buddies. Good story. The acting was hit and miss, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
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best western ever
Added 10/22/2009
i think this movie tops tombstone , showdown at ok corral and many others.best ever.
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American-made Spaghetti Western
Added 9/28/2009
No, by spaghetti western, I don't mean the zany ones. I mean the brutal, dirty ones that introduced America to a revisionist west that was uglier than the Zane Gray fantasies, such as the Django series, Lee Van Clief's movies, and the Leone films that started it all.
Mickey Rourke is effective as a sadistic, almost reptilian leader of a gang of ex-confederate raiders-turned-bank robbers. When his brutality goes too far even for his own gang to stomache, he is shot and left for dead. A posse hunting the gang finds him and is about to execute him when he makes a deal with them to track down his own gang, much against the better judgement of the sheriff who thinks it a bargain with the devil. The sheriff's reservations about the deal prove to be well-founded; As Rourke's character helps to track down and murder his ex-fellows one at a time, he slowly starts to gain control of the weak-minded members of the posse until, by the climax of the film, they have killed off the reputable members of the posse and in effect become his new gang.
The film maintains a good, steady pace with no distracting sub-plots to slow the story. Violent and un-sentimental, this movie may not be for everyone. One interesting character is a black ex-confederate soldier/gang member (yes, the south had their own black soldiers even though hollywood wouldn't want you to know that). Though the PC crowd might find this character's voodoo predictions as steretypical, bear in mind that southerners were (and still are) superstitious in general, and in the film, the other gang members hang on this character's every prediction as meaningful.
This was a made-for-HBO production filmed around 1990, but the picture quality is unusually sharp, more so than most new movies on DVD today as it appears to have been published in ED or "Enhanced Definition". Though not as sharp as HD, it is a way to fit more visual information onto the disc while maintaining the regular DVD format so it will play on any DVD player. If a lesser known feature such as this can be put out in ED, why can't they make all DVDs this way, especially some of these big-budget features they hype about so much?
At any rate, this is one of my all-time favorite westerns, and I'm glad to see that in this one instance, the studio did it justice.
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