The Last Movie
The Last Movie is a 1971 metafictional drama film directed and edited by Dennis Hopper, who also stars as a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It is written by Stewart Stern, based on a story by Hopper and Stern, and stars an extensive supporting cast including Stella Garcia, Don Gordon, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams, Sylvia Miles, Samuel Fuller, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Tomas Milian, Toni Basil, Severn Darden, Henry Jaglom, Rod Cameron, and Kris Kristofferson & Michelle Phillips in their film debuts. 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 (Hopper) 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 in 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
- George Hill
- Henry Jaglom
- John Phillip Law
- John Stevens
- 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 Dennis Hopper |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | act film kill movie business |
| musicBy | Severn Darden |
| producer | Paul Lewis |
| productionCompany | Alta-Light |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Peru |