The Last Hunt (1956) on Netflix
Sandy McKenzie, a buffalo hunter for the Army Engineers, loses his cattle to stampeding bison. He joins Charles Gilson, who kills for pleasure, and they take on Woodfoot and Jimmy O'Brien.
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Plot summary
It is 1883, and buffalo hunting has cut the herds from sixty million to three thousand. Sandy McKenzie, a famous hunter for the Army Engineers, loses his small herd of cattle when stampeding bison trample it, and he takes a new partner, Charles Gilson, who believes that killing is natural. Gilson takes intense pleasure in a stand, killing a whole herd of buffalo at one time, while McKenzie has grown tired of the hunt. An old friend of McKenzie's, the legendary skinner Woodfoot, who walks on a peg leg, joins them. So does the young half-Indian Jimmy O'Brien. The four hunt the last of the buffalo.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Hunt (1956)
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- The film used real footage of buffalo being shot and killed by government marksmen, with Harvey Lancaster of Custer serving as the main marksman for the filming.
- The winter-set story was actually filmed in scorching summer heat at Custer State Park; when temperatures reached triple digits, Stewart Granger, in full winter costume, passed out from heat exhaustion and the crew cut away his clothes to revive him.
- Stewart Granger and director Richard Brooks were reportedly not fond of one another, a rift sharpened when Brooks married Granger's ex-wife, the actress Jean Simmons.
