KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

norwoodw John sturges is aces...makes John Ford look like Larry welk

LeonLouisRicci A Stiff and Super Clean Look is What You Get From the Overrated Director John Sturgess Once Again. The Man Wouldn't Know Grit if it Covered the Bottom of His Elevator Boots. The Strong Acting from Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn with the Radiant Beauty of Carolyn Jones Cannot Save Another Clunker from Sturges and His Bland Direction.There is Some Tension from the Script, Borrowed from and Almost Identical to Other Recent Movies of the Era, the Shallow and By the Numbers Style of So Many Fifties Westerns Renders the Suspense Somewhat Anemic.The First Act is the Best and it All Goes Down (Gun) Hill From There. The Cinematography is Lusciously Competent but Nothing Different from a Thousand Other Professionals, and the Dimitri Tiomkin Score is Intrusive and Overdone Frequently.Worth a Watch with Low Expectations but for Those Looking for One of the Better Westerns from the Many in the Decade of "The Western", Need Look Elsewhere.

dsewizzrd-1 In the Wild West, Kirk Douglas is a man whose wife is raped and killed by the son of a local big man. He vows to bring the young man to justice. His father is an old friend. Holed up in a hotel, Douglas asks the girlfriend of the widower for a shotgun, although he has no need for it as he has a handgun already. This plot device is used purely to create dramatic tension between the three. A goon of the big man sets fire to his hotel, even though Douglas has to leave anyway to catch the only train out that day.This is largely a run of the mill Western except for the early scenes, which don't really add any more than the nuanced plot in earlier Westerns would have done. It's all surface and uncomplicated, which won't bother the typical Western fan, or the lack of plot sense.

Petri Pelkonen Marshal Matt Morgan's Native American wife is raped and murdered.Two drunken cowboys are behind the deed.Matt seeks for revenge.He finds out the other cowboy is the son of his old friend, Craig Belden.Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) is directed by John Sturges and produced by Hal B. Wallis.There is a great cast in this movie, starting with Kirk Douglas as Matt Morgan.This terrific actor turns 95 today, which is a very respectable age.I congratulate the man, who has done many, many roles in his career.Anthony Quinn makes a great co-star to Kirk, playing Craig Belden.Earl Hollimann makes a great villain as the son Rick.Brian G. Hutton is the other bad guy Lee Smithers, and he's very good.Carolyn Jones is superb in the female lead, playing Linda.Also brief but memorable performance by Viva Rodann, who plays Mrs. Catherine Morgan.This is an underrated western, which shouldn't be the case.There is some memorable stuff in this movie, like the sequence where Matt holds Rick as the prisoner at the hotel.And then escapes the flames.I enjoyed the scene with a lighter tone, where Matt tells the kids about the time he faced some crooks.Don't overlook this western with Kirk Douglas.