The Last Outlaw (1919)
30m
Running Time
June 15, 1919Release Date
Plot.
The Last Outlaw (1919) proved very tantalizing. An end-of-the-West Western, it shows its grizzled hero revisiting the town of his youthful exploits. But now, in an anticipation of Ride the High Country (1962), civilization has taken over. Cars chase Bud off the streets and the theatre features movies (Universal Bluebirds at that, a bit of product placement). Ford heightens the contrast by letting us into the hero’s memory, introduced by the title: “Memories of the past flashing back to him”—the earliest reference to the term “flashback” I recall seeing in the movies.
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The Last Outlaw is a 1919 American short silent Western film directed by John Ford. Only the first reel of the film survives, in the British Film Institute film archive and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.