The Last Movie
The Last Movie is a 1971 American metafictional drama film directed by and starring Dennis Hopper. It was written by Stewart Stern, based on a story by Hopper and Stern, and features an extensive supporting cast including Stella Garcia, Don Gordon, Peter Fonda, Sam Fuller, Kris Kristofferson (in his film debut), Michelle Phillips, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn and Tomas Milian. The plot follows a disenfranchised stuntman (Hopper), who begins a filmmaking-centric cargo cult among Peruvian natives after going into self-imposed exile.
Plot
Kansas is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed while doing a stunt, he decides to quit the movie business and stay in Peru with a local woman. He thinks he has found paradise, but is soon called in to help in a bizarre incident: the Peruvian natives are "filming" their own movie with "cameras" made of sticks, and acting out real western movie violence, as they do not understand movie fakery.
Cast
- Dean Stockwell
- Dennis Hopper
- Dennis Stock
- Don Gordon
- Henry Jaglom
- John Phillip Law
- Julie Adams
- Kris Kristofferson
- Michael Anderson, Jr.
- Michelle Phillips
- Peter Fonda
- Richard Rust
- Robert Rothwell
- Rod Cameron
- Roy Engel
- Russ Tamblyn
- Samuel Fuller
- Severn Darden
- Sylvia Miles
- Ted Markland
- Tomás Milián
- Toni Basil
- Warren Finnerty
More details
| author | Stewart Stern |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Peru |
| director | Dennis Hopper |
| editor | Antranig Mahakian David Berlatsky |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | act film kill movie business |
| musicBy | Severn Darden |
| producer | Paul Lewis |
| productionCompany | Alta-Light |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Peru |