TCM has another good one early Sunday Morning at 4 a.m. ET, Richard Fleischer’s The Last Run (1971), with George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Tony Musante and Colleen Dewhurst

By David in TN
saturday, september 16, 2023 at 11:52:00 a.m. edt

TCM has another good one early Sunday Morning at 4 a.m. ET, Richard Fleischer’s The Last Run (1971), with George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Tony Musante and Colleen Dewhurst.

This was George C. Scott’s first film after Patton. Scott plays a former driver for the mob living in Portugal. He gets an offer to drive a mob assassin (Musante) who has escaped from Spanish prison, but finds things complicated.

Scott called it “a kind of Bogart part,” which he had long wanted to play. Scott and Van Devere fell in love, eventually marrying, while making the movie after Scott’s then wife (Dewhurst) left the set. Fleischer said it was “life imitating art.”