Friday 22 July 2005

Sunset (1988)

This movie should have been a whole lot better than it was since it is set in Hollywood during the crossover period to sound and stars Bruce Willis in one of his early film roles as the movie cowboy Tom Mix (he looks great in the fancy western gear, but otherwise seems mis-cast).  The saving grace is James Garner playing the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp; Earp did actually act as a consultant in Hollywood, so the fact that he died the year before this film's setting is neither here nor there.  Together they investigate a not terribly involving murder.  I think Garner is incapable of being boring on screen and the Blake Edwards' dialogue has its moments.

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