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Last Train from Gun Hill is a 1959 American Western film in VistaVision and Technicolor, directed by John Sturges. It stars Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn and Earl Holliman. Douglas and Holliman had previously appeared together in Sturges' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), which used much of the same crew.
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Plot
Two old friends, Matt Morgan and Craig Belden are now in different professions. Belden, a rich cattle baron, is the de facto ruler of the town of Gun Hill. Morgan is a U.S. Marshal living in another town with his Cherokee wife and young son, Petey.
Two young drunken cowboys rape and murder Morgan's wife while she is returning with their son from a visit to her father. She succeeds in inflicting a deep and identifying whip wound on the cheek of one of her attackers. While the attackers are preoccupied, the boy escapes on one of the killers' horses, which bears a distinctive, fancy saddle.
Morgan sets off to find the killer. One clue is the saddle, which he recognizes as belonging to his old friend, Belden. Assuming it was stolen, Morgan travels to Gun Hill to pick up the trail. Morgan goes to Belden's ranch intending to return the saddle and get information. Once there, he quickly realizes that Belden's son Rick is the killer.
