Two silver dollars play a part in this film.
It is explained that they are "1794 Silver Dollars, the first from the US Mint.
" However what is actually displayed in the movie is the reverse side of a US silver dollar known as the Morgan Dollar, after its designer, George Morgan.
This dollar was not minted until 1878 (Actually 1878-1904 and 1921.
) Therefore, actual 1794 dollar coins were not shown.
The Last of the Fast Guns is directed by George Sherman and written by David P. Harman.
A gunfighter named Brad Ellison : Jock Mahoney, is hired by a wealthy and dying elderly man , John Forbes : Carl Benton Reid, to carry out a risked assignment : to look for his brother for leaving him a valuable inheritance , a mine shared with a partner . En route his destination Ellison is assaulted by two bandits with whom he has a deadly duel .
*** This review may contain spoilers ***The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) isn't a bad Western and the location is gorgeous, I think that's what pulls it through. At the start, two gunfighters shoot it out in town and the winner is invited to speak with an old man.
Jock Mahoney is at his best in this one.
"Last Of The Fast Guns" is an okay Western, not bad, but not worth some of the high grades I see here on IMDb from some of the people (I admit very few) who actually saw it. I just saw it again on Sunday (Encore Westerns), after a number of years, and the flaws I saw back then were even more obvious than before: 1: There is absolutely no chemistry between Brad Ellison (Jock Mahoney) and Maria O'Reilly (Linda Crystal).
Gunfighter Miles is hired to go south of the border to find a dying man's missing brother. However, things are more complicated than they seem.
This is a western but the plot could be that of a film noir ,a thriller: a wealthy man in a wheelchair hires a gunfighter to find back his brother and heir;he probably won't live that long and he does not want his fortune to fall into the hands of an unscrupulous associate.The story is a quest and the identity of the brother which I will not reveal of course, for it's one of the few surprises of the film, is a bit unexpected ,but all in all,makes sense .
The grave at the beginning seems too big for a man. It yawns unfilled even after the man Brad Ellison came to town to kill dies.
After viewing the fast draw at the waterhole many times in freeze-frame, I think it was faked. Looks like Mahoney started his draw with his gun out of his holster, and the sound of the gun clearing the holster was added post-production.
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