The Last Run

"The Last Run" (1971) (Richard Fleischer) A really hard to get and seemingly forgotten melancholy and sublime existential genre-faced masterpiece. (That’s two in one year for screenwriter Alan Sharp; who also scripted the sublime “The Hired Hand” (1971); which also got made the same year by an equally eclectic and talented team behind and in front of the camera.) George C. Scott is great as an aging, restless, time-bled ex-getaway driver living out a tick tock aimless existence in a Portugese coast town fishing village. After a long time away, and a bid at an idealistic life turned tragic and meaningless, he decides to take a job driving a prison break convict Paul Rickard (played with counteracting unwarranted youthful zeal by Tony Musante) across the border; mostly just to see if he can still do it. Along the way they pick up Paul’s waiting girlfriend and the three form an unusual triangle of straying and converging lines of life lived, philosophies made and meaning obscured. With a great script by Sharp, meaningful melancholy and charismatic cool by Scott (as well as great performances by Tony Musante and Trish Van Devere as well), bare and modest style by Fleischer, haunting sc

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