The Last Sunset

Robert Aldrich (director)
Howard Rigsby writing as Vechel Howard (novel)
Dalton Trumbo (screenwriter)
Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten (starring)

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1961. Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink, and pencil.

Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby (under the pseudonym Vechel Howard) about a cowboy who, on the run from the law, travels to visit an old lover in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film.

Set and shot on location in Mexico.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #144217]