‘Last Train From Gun Hill’: Defending the Law Is Everyone’s Duty

Director John Sturges brings a story of a lawman who restrains a need for vengeance to exact justice.

Marshal Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas, L) arrests Rick Beldon (Earl Holliman), in “Last Train From Gun Hill.” MovieStillsDB

NR | 1h 35min | Western | 1959

Director John Sturges hints, in “Last Train From Gun Hill,” that every man must take the law into his hands—except, not in the way some people imagine.