The Last Hunt

steveno · Aug 20, 2018

on TCM today with Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger. I don't ever remember this movie although it was pretty good it was a little disturbing about the old buffalo hunts. one hunter couldn't get enough of it and the other decided to call it quits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Hunt

Wyatt Burp · Aug 20, 2018

I have it on VHS and it was a favorite to watch with my dad who first turned me on to it. A great psychological study of a sociopath brilliantly played by the usually stoic Robert Taylor. And what about the actual shooting of the buffalo by military marksman behind the camera as the stars shot the old guns? Imagine doing that today!! I love the scene where they are around the fire moulding bullets and loading ammo. Stewart Grainger's Sharps would never be used by a hide hunter. It was more in the Creedmore style with a long but lighter barrel. Not good for non stop shooting. And notice the guns didn't kick when they shot them. Taylor's nickel plated deluxe Winchester 76 was very cool, though not usually associated with Buffalo hunting.

steveno · Aug 20, 2018

I wasn't aware of the buffalo shooting by the government at Custer State park to trim down the herd. the bunny huggers would go nuts over that these days

jrm53 · Aug 20, 2018

I watched that movie in the theater about 56, saw one on TCM that I had never saw this afternoon "The Wild North" with Stewart Granger and Wendal Corey its a top notch mountie picture from 1952. Jeff

GB · Aug 20, 2018

They still cull in CSP but today they do it with a roundup and then sell live critters to places that want to resell the meat or to be used in breeding stock to start other herds. Lots of Buff raised in the Dakotas as well as a number of Beefalo also raised for meat. There is a place, just West of Pierre, that raises Charlois (spelling?)/ buffalo crossed. Makes a critter that looks like a buff but is cream colored. The movie was a big deal when I was growing up in the 50s. Having been made in S.D. my Mom would let us/have us watch it whenever it was shown.

Watchdog · Aug 20, 2018

I was flipping through the channels earlier today, think it was somewhere around noon, and actually hit on The Last Hunt showing on TCM.

I was only half paying attention, but a scene came up where the two guys were talking and a buffalo appeared behind them. Well, they turn around and one draws and fires three shots from the hip with his sixgun of unknown caliber. The buffalo drops to the ground, dead as the proverbial doornail, and doesn't even twitch. Right. So much for realism. I decided not to watch it after that.

Just another fifties MGM oater with two generic action "stars". Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger did not make good cowboys. Both of them were just too clean cut, for lack of a better term.

About the best thing Stewart Granger ever did was King Solomon's Mines. And maybe The Prisoner of Zenda.

Just my opinion.

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