The Last Run (1971) on Netflix
Harry Garmes once drove for the Chicago Outfit and lives in a Portuguese fishing village. His first job in nine years: take Paul Rickard, an escaped killer, and Claudie Scherrer to France.
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Plot summary
In self-imposed exile in Albufeira, a southern Portuguese fishing village, Harry Garmes keeps a boat and has not worked in nine years. His wife left him after their son died, and Monique, a local prostitute, is the company he sometimes seeks. Then a job arrives: take Paul Rickard, who broke out of a Spanish prison, and Rickard's girlfriend Claudie Scherrer out of Portugal, across Spain and into France. Harry accepts as a chance to prove he can still make the grade, though he has a premonition it will end badly, and he gives Monique money to hold, hers to keep if he does not come back. The three set out in a BMW 503 fitted with a hidden compartment and a supercharger.
Cast
- Antonio Tarruellaas Motorcycle Policeman
- Pat Zuricaas 1st Man
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Run (1971)
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- By February 1971, director John Huston had walked off the production of The Last Run, and actress Tina Aumont quit the film as well.
- George C. Scott's wife Colleen Dewhurst flew out to the Portuguese location with his children Alexander and Campbell, and wound up playing the hooker Monique, who shares a small but important first-act scene with Scott's Harry.
- For the female lead, star George C. Scott wanted Bonnie Bedelia, who had just finished a movie in Spain but turned the part down; the role went to Trish Van Devere, fresh from her film debut in Where's Poppa?.
- George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere fell in love during the production once Colleen Dewhurst left the unit; Scott divorced Dewhurst after filming and married Van Devere, a turn director Richard Fleischer called nature imitating art.
- Production was shut down for a week: MGM head of European operations Robert Littman flew to the set, and when studio head Jim Aubrey wanted to abandon filming, Littman persuaded him to continue.
- Screenwriter Alan Sharp said he rewrote the script six times, adding that he was not one of those guys who felt it was his masterpiece and that no one must touch it.
