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By the late 1920s, Hollywood is moving from silent pictures to sound, and producer Alfie Alperin wants to make an epic Western about Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix is given the part of the marshal, while Earp himself, the former lawman, works on the picture as an adviser. The two men become friends. Earp's former girlfriend Christina is now Christina Alperin, the wife of the studio boss, and her son Michael has gone missing. Earp's inquiries into the case annoy Alperin. Hostess Cheryl King takes a romantic interest in Earp, and Alperin's sister Victoria is seeing the gangster Dutch Kieffer. Earp and Mix are caught up in a killing, and in prostitution and corruption as well.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sunset (1988)
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- After finishing Sunset, James Garner said he would never work with Bruce Willis again, calling him "high school" and not serious about his work, and saying Willis thought he could just walk through it and make up dialogue.
- The real Wyatt Earp had been an unpaid technical adviser on early silent Westerns from 1915 and knew the Western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix; when he died on January 13, 1929, aged 80, both Hart and Mix were pallbearers at his funeral.
- Sunset shows James Garner's Wyatt Earp attending the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929, even though the real Earp had died on January 13, 1929, at the age of 80.
- Mariel Hemingway signed up for Sunset for the chance to work with Blake Edwards, saying his Breakfast at Tiffany's was "almost a religion" to her and she could not pass it up.
- Sunset was the last film in which James Garner played Wyatt Earp; he had first played the lawman in John Sturges's Hour of the Gun, released in 1967.
- Blake Edwards won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for Sunset at the 9th Golden Raspberry Awards, tying with Stewart Raffill for Mac and Me.
