sunset

Director: blake edwards

Actor: bruce willis,james garner,malcolm mcdowell,mariel hemingway

Data Published: Fri Apr 29 1988

Genres: Crime,Mystery,Thriller,Western

Key Words: cowboy,reference to arizona,reference to tombstone arizona,tom mix character,woman dresses as a man

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096193/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_(film)

Description: Sunset is a movie starring Bruce Willis, James Garner, and Malcolm McDowell. Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Plot: In Hollywood in the late 1920s during the waning days of the industry's transition to sound film, producer and studio head Alfie Alperin (Malcolm McDowell) wants to produce an epic Western film about Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is cast as the great United States Marshal and the real Earp (James Garner) is on the set as a technical adviser. While Earp and Mix, the "real" and "reel" western heroes, are involved in their film adventure, they also get caught up in an actual case of murder, prostitution and corruption. Together, they try to straighten out the problems of the missing son of Earp's former girlfriend, Christina (Patricia Hodge). She is now the wife of studio boss Alfie Alperin and he is not pleased by Earp's investigation. Hostess Cheryl King (Mariel Hemingway) becomes romantically involved with Earp. Alfie's sister, Victoria Alperin (Jennifer Edwards) is dating a notorious mobster and all three were at the scene of the murder of Madam Candice Gerard. Soon Earp unveils the true sadistic character of Alfie Alperin. Two of his accomplices, studio Chief of Studio Police Dibner (M. Emmet Walsh) whose interest is in protecting Alperin and corrupt Capt. Blackworth (Richard Bradford) turn nasty. Mix and Earp get to fight a real gunfight at a real isolated ranch, with Mix telling Earp "I wish there was a camera here" before drawing a real gun ... After the death of Christina, matters become personal for Earp, leading to the explosive climax between Mix, Alperin, and Earp.