Sunset

Sunset (1988)

They broke every rule, loved every woman, took every risk and solved the most shocking murder in the history of Beverly Hills. And it's all true. Give or take a lie or two.

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Date of release
1988-04-29
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (118)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Director
Blake Edwards

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 3. Including: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

Sunset is a 1988 American mystery western comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bruce Willis as Western actor Tom Mix, who teams up with lawman Wyatt Earp, portrayed for the second time in a theatrical film by James Garner. Based on an unpublished novel by Rod Amateau, the plot has Earp and Mix solve a murder in Hollywood in 1929.

Production

Mariel Hemingway, like Bruce Willis and Garner, signed up for the film for the chance to work with Blake Edwards. Hemingway confessed: "The movie sounded a little chaotic, but it had a secret weapon: it was directed by Blake Edwards who had made Breakfast at Tiffany's, a movie that was almost a religion with me. I couldn't pass up the chance to work with him."

Garner had fond memories of working with Edwards in Victor/Victoria (1982), and Willis and Edwards had a close working relationship after Willis had made his film debut in Edwards’s Blind Date. Throughout the pre-production phases of the film, Edwards counseled his young star that, "... he couldn't rely on the jokes and the leer" that had been his trademark in the Moonlighting television series (1985–1989).

A running gag throughout the film was that Wyatt Earp cannot drive, though he does so on more than one occasion. Garner was considered an expert stunt driver and did quite a lot of his own driving on his TV series, The Rockford Files (1974–1980).

Edwards went to great lengths to re-create the 1920s Hollywood era, including a re-creation of the 1929 Academy Awards dinner, complete with a mime act that closely resembled the antics of silent screen comedians such as Charlie Chaplin. This focus on period detail was noted as one of the serious flaws in the staging of the film.

Principal photography on Sunset took place from April 6, 1987 and wrapped on July 2, 1987. The filming locations included locations in Southern California: Ambassador Hotel, 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood.

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