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Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
Castulo Guerra
- Pancho
- (as Cástulo Guerra)
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- TriviaAlthough the plot is mostly fiction, Wyatt Earp and Tom Mix were real-life friends. After Earp retired from law enforcement, he and his wife drifted around, eventually setting in Los Angeles, where he and Mix met. Mix tried to get Hollywood to produce a movie about Earp, but they weren't interested. Earp was hired as a technical consultant for movies starring Mix and William S. Hart. When Earp died in 1929, Mix and Hart were his pallbearers.
- GoofsWhen Tom Mix chases down the Stagecoach after the driver is shot, the reins go through a "window" into the stagecoach so a stunt driver can control the team.
- Quotes
Wyatt Earp: It's all true, give or take a lie or two.
- Crazy creditsThe final frame of the picture freezes, and the following text appears: "And this is how it really happened. Give or take a lie or two."
- SoundtracksBlack And Tan Fantasy
Performed by Duke Ellington and the Duke Ellington Orchestra (as Orchestra)
Courtesy of RCA Records
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A good movie. One disappointing point, tho !
I saw Sunset, recently, during a middle-of-the-night channel surf that ended up on a cable channel running the film at about 4:00am. I had never seen the film before, but had always been interested because of the two leads, and the era in which the film is set (the late 1920s).
I enjoyed the film, quite a bit, actually. I thought the story was very good, and well written, and Garner and Willis made a great team. I especially enjoyed Willis' characterization of Tom Mix. He brought just the right amount of cowboy style to the silen movie hero. And, of course, Garner is always good. But he really excelled as Wyatt Earp.
I thought the premise was very original, and that the whole film was a lot of fun.
With one exception.
Why is the villain of this piece so obviously supposed to remind us of Charley Chaplin ? Alvy Alperin ? Formerly known as The Happy Hobo ? A clear reference to Chaplin, and his little tramp. And yet the character is an abuseive rapist, and murderer who beats his own wife to death.
Why Edwards chose to virtually villify one of the most talented and entertaining comedians of the silent era, who was also a fairly nice bloke in real life, if a bit of a womanizer, I do not know.
The other original characters in the film- that is character who are fictional, rather than historical, like Earp, and Mix, are very well-crafted, believable, and completely original. No single character seems to be a rip on any single individual in Hollywood at the time, except for Malcolm McDowall's Alperin.
As a fan of Chaplin, Normand, Arbuckle, and the great silent clowns I found this to be a strong defect in the overall film. I can definitely believe Tom Mix as a hero. But I simply cannot reconcile even a thinly renamed Chaplin with a bully and a rapist.
I wonder why Edwards didn't go the extra mile to make the Alperin character more original.
Aside from this point, which is a big one, really, the film is a lot of fun for fans of the period, and the leads.
I enjoyed the film, quite a bit, actually. I thought the story was very good, and well written, and Garner and Willis made a great team. I especially enjoyed Willis' characterization of Tom Mix. He brought just the right amount of cowboy style to the silen movie hero. And, of course, Garner is always good. But he really excelled as Wyatt Earp.
I thought the premise was very original, and that the whole film was a lot of fun.
With one exception.
Why is the villain of this piece so obviously supposed to remind us of Charley Chaplin ? Alvy Alperin ? Formerly known as The Happy Hobo ? A clear reference to Chaplin, and his little tramp. And yet the character is an abuseive rapist, and murderer who beats his own wife to death.
Why Edwards chose to virtually villify one of the most talented and entertaining comedians of the silent era, who was also a fairly nice bloke in real life, if a bit of a womanizer, I do not know.
The other original characters in the film- that is character who are fictional, rather than historical, like Earp, and Mix, are very well-crafted, believable, and completely original. No single character seems to be a rip on any single individual in Hollywood at the time, except for Malcolm McDowall's Alperin.
As a fan of Chaplin, Normand, Arbuckle, and the great silent clowns I found this to be a strong defect in the overall film. I can definitely believe Tom Mix as a hero. But I simply cannot reconcile even a thinly renamed Chaplin with a bully and a rapist.
I wonder why Edwards didn't go the extra mile to make the Alperin character more original.
Aside from this point, which is a big one, really, the film is a lot of fun for fans of the period, and the leads.
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- Catalina
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- Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,594,452
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,031,678
- May 1, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $4,594,452
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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