The Last Run is a 1971 action film directed by Richard Fleischer, starring George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, and Colleen Dewhurst.
Harry Grimes (George C. Scott) is an aging American career criminal who was once a driver for Chicago’s organized crime rings. He is living in self-imposed exile in a fishing village in southern Portugal, where he seeks occasional companionship from a local prostitute (Colleen Dewhurst). Unexpectedly, H...
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The Last Run is a 1971 action film directed by Richard Fleischer, starring George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, and Colleen Dewhurst.
Harry Grimes (George C. Scott) is an aging American career criminal who was once a driver for Chicago’s organized crime rings. He is living in self-imposed exile in a fishing village in southern Portugal, where he seeks occasional companionship from a local prostitute (Colleen Dewhurst). Unexpectedly, Harry received a job, his first in nine years, to drive an escaped killer (Tony Musante) and the man’s girlfriend (Trish Van Devere) across Portugal and Spain into France. He accepts the job, despite premonitions that will end badly for him. In the course of the trip, Harry and his passengers are pursued by both the police and Harry’s former mobster cronies.
John Huston was the original director for The Last Run. However, Huston and Scott, who previously worked together on the 1966 film The Bible: In the Beginning, had fights on the set. Huston...
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