'The Last Outlaw' (1936) directed by Christy Cabanne (The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch, The Mummy's Hand, and almost too many movies to watch in one life, much less direct). Evelyne Murray Campbell came up with the original story. John Ford directed the original in 1919 (I understand only one reel still exists). Featuring performances by Harry Carey as Dean Payton, Hoot Gibson (this may be my favorite Hoot Gibson role) as Chuck Wilson, Russell Hopton as Sheriff Arthur Billings, Tom Tyler (!) as Al Goss, and Fred Scott as Larry Dixon, Singing Movie Cowboy (I think this may have started Scott on his way to be a singing cowboy. The footage isn't from one of Scott's films, but I think it served as a test reel to his series of cowboy movies). I love how the theater scene pays off when Gibson emulates the fancy cowboy look, after making fun of same look, to impress a gal. Dead accurate reflection of Male insecurity.
Carey ends up helping his old sheriff pal with catching a bank heist kidnap crew. The low key shootout (kinda an anti-shootout), and the whole picture in general, calls out the 'go in guns ablaze' stuff so common to westerns (Cry Macho did much the same thing in a different way).
Harry Carey is completely bad ass in this, and most of the townies are boorish snobs (a good mix). He accidentally jostles a guy in the street. Guy says, "For a nickel, I'd slug you!" Carey reaches into his pocket and hands the guy a nickel. A police officer breaks up the eminent fight, and Carey takes his nickel back. "You didn't earn this." I wish humor were a more common spice in modern westerns.
Why isn't this on home media?
Carey ends up helping his old sheriff pal with catching a bank heist kidnap crew. The low key shootout (kinda an anti-shootout), and the whole picture in general, calls out the 'go in guns ablaze' stuff so common to westerns (Cry Macho did much the same thing in a different way).
Harry Carey is completely bad ass in this, and most of the townies are boorish snobs (a good mix). He accidentally jostles a guy in the street. Guy says, "For a nickel, I'd slug you!" Carey reaches into his pocket and hands the guy a nickel. A police officer breaks up the eminent fight, and Carey takes his nickel back. "You didn't earn this." I wish humor were a more common spice in modern westerns.
Why isn't this on home media?