The Last Run

The Last Run is a 1971 action film directed by Richard Fleischer, starring George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, and Colleen Dewhurst.

John Huston was the original director for The Last Run. However, Huston and Scott, who previously worked together on the 1966 film The Bible In the Beginning, had fights on the set. Huston walked off the production and he was hastily replaced by Richard Fleischer. Scott also had fights with French actress Tina Aumont, who was originally cast as the killers girlfriend. She also quit the film and was replaced by Trish Van Devere, an American actress. Scott and Van Devere fell in love during the production. However, Scott was married at the time to Colleen Dewhurst, who was also in the film. Dewhurst and Scott divorced after the production concluded, and the actor married Van Devere who became his third wife.The Last Run was poorly received by the major critics, and most of them lamented the replacement of Huston with Fleischer. Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago SunTimes, commented that with Huston directing Alan Sharps interesting screenplay, the movie would still have had the good stuff, I think, and would have avoided the embarrassing collapses of tone that wreck this version. Roger Greenspun, reviewing the film for The New York Times, stated that Fleischer a veteran of more thanyears in the business...seems not yet to have mastered the reaction shot and his automobile chase sequences, for all the billowing dust and squealing tires, seem to move atmiles an hour. Toni Mastroianni, reviewing the film for the Cleveland Press, faulted Scotts performance as the main stumbling block The problem with Scott at the moment is to find a movie as big as he is. The role is right for him and maybe he should play a real Hemingway part instead of an imitation one. ........

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