richard brook the last hunt be a film star stewart granger couldn not even stand to hear mention he even tear up a vintage poster for the film when present it for sign in his late year but then the director do run off with his wife and so it understandable . for anyone else this be one of the best of the adult western of the 50 and and year ahead of it time in it attitude to the environment . in many way it play almost like a sequel to one of anthony mann westerns that see their hero drag to their redemption kicking and scream against it every step in the way . here granger legendary buffalo hunter have already see the light but and after a buffalo stampede cost him his herd of cattle in a fit of poetic justice and he drag back into the darkness by robert taylor callous and proudly racist gunslinger and justify it on the ground that i have already get the guilty conscience . i might as well have the money a well . raise by indian and he fully aware of the damage he do a the disappear buffalo head for extinction and and he gradually become almost a consume with self loathe a taylor be with hate . when the two men fall out over debra paget squaw the sole survivor of a band of indian taylor kill and a white buffalo hide that priceless to the hunter and the indian for very different reason and a showdown becomes inevitable and though the outcome certainly isn not . taylor be certainly ironic cast it be granger turn down many of the epic roles mgm develop for him in film like quo vadis and ivanhoe that give taylor his 50 comeback after year of steady decline . his hair color may not convince but his performance do and a shallow and violent man so consumed with hate that he doesn not wear a gun and the gun wear him . granger accent isn not always convince and but he make a good quiet hero in the jimmy stewart mold and try to keep hold of his newfound decency and reconcile his action with his belief before finally get a chance to make amends . russ tamblyn halfbreed skinner and lloyd nolan one legged old timer also give as good a they get and but the real star be the script represent tightly plot with an excellent eye and ear for character not to mention an end stanley kubrick borrow for the shin it balance historical revisionism with entertaining drama without ever sell either short . the new french dvd be extras free but do boast a 2 . 35 represent1 transfer with an english soundtrack .