A feud between the Colby and the Hayden families starts in the hills of Kentucky and continues in the mountains of the West after the American Civil War. Also involved is the conflict between vigilantism and the law in a frontier environment, and lovers from the two feuding families.
To the Last Man has a certain primitive raw quality with characters that look like they are in a state of constipation. There's a certain coarseness in the characters; they lack gentleness. This western has no sentimentality and the action is quite gritty. At one point during the ensuing mayhem, one of the villains shoots the head off 5-year-old Shirley Temple's doll right in front of the child. It's interesting to a certain point and the story is ok, the acting is good, the action is well-staged and the depiction of how feuds are futile and a waste of energy is strong, but overall I found it a little too primitive, lacking some light and shade and polish. Jack LaRue was a good villain, though-he looked like a demented Jerry Lewis lookalike.
To the Last Man has a certain primitive raw quality with characters that look like they are in a state of constipation. There's a certain coarseness in the characters; they lack gentleness. This western has no sentimentality and the action is quite gritty. At one point during the ensuing mayhem, one of the villains shoots the head off 5-year-old Shirley Temple's doll right in front of the child. It's interesting to a certain point and the story is ok, the acting is good, the action is well-staged and the depiction of how feuds are futile and a waste of energy is strong, but overall I found it a little too primitive, lacking some light and shade and polish. Jack LaRue was a good villain, though-he looked like a demented Jerry Lewis lookalike.