Kirk Douglas became a Hollywood legend thanks to his work across all genres, but he became particularly associated with the Western.

Douglas’ gritty, complex on-screen persona made him particularly suited to playing anti-heroic Western characters . The star was indeed a major figure in the transition of the Western protagonist from the simplicity of the old-fashioned cowboy hero, to the more complicated heroes of the revisionist era.

A producer who initiated many of his own projects, Douglas was drawn to stories about individualistic characters at odds with the powers-that-be. The Western genre afforded him ample opportunity to play such strong-willed, solitary and often flawed men.

The Last Sunset

The Last Sunset stars Douglas as Bren O’Malley, a man wanted for murder, who is p

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