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Last Man Standing
1996
The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze racket. Strozzi (Ned .. Read more
| Starring | Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, David Patrick Kelly |
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| Director | Walter Hill |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Last Man Standing
The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze racket. Strozzi (Ned Eisenberg) leads a gang of Italian rum-runners with the help of his right-hand-man Giorgio (Michael Imperioli), while Doyle (David Patrick Kelly) is the head of an Irish mob, with Hickey (Christopher Walken) serving as his enforcer; the town's sheriff, Ed Galt (Bruce Dern) is powerless to stop the crime in Jericho, and he mainly tries to stay out of the way and keep an uneasy peace between Strozzi and Doyle. John Smith (Bruce Willis) is a ruthless and amoral gunman on the run from the law who passes through Jericho on his way to Mexico. Sizing up the situation, Smith quickly hatches a scheme by which he'll sell his services first to one of the gangs, and then the other, eventually turning the two sides against each other while he stays in the middle and takes the profits generated by both sides. Writer and director Walter Hill based his screenplay on Akira Kurosawa's classic samurai picture Yojimbo, which also inspired Sergio Leone's ground-breaking spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, David Patrick Kelly, Alexandra Powers, Karina Lombard |
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| Director | Walter Hill |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1996 To Rent: DVD: 27 Sep 1999 |
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A Hollywood Western influenced by other schools of film-making. The wit and charm of Kurosawa's original, Yojimbo, has been replaced by a raw energy and gunfights in the style of John Woo; but its glum, conscienceless protagonist lacks the style of
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A Fist Full Of Yojimbo
That's right folks, they had the audacity to remake A Fistful Of Dollars with Bruce Willis and set it in Prohibition-era America. But wait, don't go, it... read more »
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- James Pryde
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- 05 Aug 2004 at 13:34
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Competent but daft gun fights
Gun for hire, comes across remote Texas town, ran by two gangs, man tries to play gangs off for each other for money, carnage.
Western/gangster film ... read more » - 952937
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- Bassman71
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Willis smoulders
Whilst the rest of the cast carry on carrying on. Well worth a watch if you like the archetypal Willis hard man saves the world sort of film. A man of few words... read more »
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Expected a bit more
Christopher Walken is my favourite actor closely followed by Bruce Willis so I couldn't wait to see this film; alas I was tad disappointed, the story was a ... read more »
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Last Man Standing
The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze ...
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