I liked it too. I guess since it came out before the net, no one is interested in discussing it. Plus you rarely, if ever, see it on TV or available on DVD.
i haven't seen it yet but i'm fixing to buy in on dvd...but it looks like a good movie to me...with bruce willis AND james garner acting and blake edwards directing u can't go wrong
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It was an *okay* movie (4/10), but considering Wyatt Earp died in January 1929, it's kinda hard to see a black-haired 50-ish James Garner in that roll. Dramatic liberties, eh? ;)
Good chemistry between the two principals, and it was a nice variation on alternate history, which is always fun. A flick to enjoy.
sharewas a fictitious character. Which makes sense, he turned out to be the murderer. There's only so much you can get away with, even by saying it's "alternate history"
Like Charlie Chaplin, Alfie Alperin had an alliterative name, had begun his career as an acrobat, had gained movie fame as a tramp character, and gone on to found his own film studio.
Although their situations had many similarities, Alfie and Charlie were definitely kept separate within both the bounds of the dialogue and the visual representaions. According to Alfie "Chaplin and Fox (Studios) were betting on sound" but Alfie was betting on this western about the Earp's and Clanton's shoot out. Had he lived, Alfie would have lost that bet
Chaplin had two brothers, but no sister, and unlike Alfie, Charlie had no trouble fathering children. In total, over his four marriages, Charlie fathered six sons and five daughters.
Furthermore, when Alfie was dressed as his early screen character, "the Happy Hobo" at the original Academy Award ceremony, he looked nothing like Chaplin's "Little Tramp" character, but rather was dressed and made up to appear more like Ben Turpin without the crossed eyes.
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and what is a movie at its heart, but entertainment!
I loved this movie. I have always loved Garner and do like Willis. Sure, fanciful and not reality, but again... it's a movie.
wish I could find it on DVD.
I liked it quite a bit. i still have it on VHS and watch it about once a year.
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Besides, there are few films set during this period that are this entertaining.
I always enjoy this movie it seems to be on Five in the UK every so often. I've always had a soft spot for the late twenties early thirties setting and I think it captures a kind of screwball action thriller with some quite dark subject matter hidden in their.
i think the pairing of Willis and Garner is a nice little passing the baton kinda thing and they do have good chemistry. And Malcolm McDowell is always value for money. His vicious little face is perfect.
Anyway i agree with previous posters bags of fun
I saw "Sunset" on the Retro cable station last night, and liked it a great deal, possibly more than any other Blake Edwards film I've seen. As Mr. Edwards came from a filmmaker's background, perhaps it has more feeling (and less slapstick) than most of his other films.
shareIt could had been a better film.
Malcolm Mcdowell was very good and James Garner was just effortless.
Its that man again!!
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