Sunset (1988)
(Blake Edwards, US 1988, 102 min., 35mm)
James Garner returns to the role of Wyatt Earp twenty years after Hour of the Gun. This film, however, takes place in 1920s Hollywood when Earp was visiting film sets and stumbles into a murder mystery. In 1929 Tom Mix (Bruce Willis), one of the great silent Western stars, is making a film about Wyatt Earp, only to find that the real Earp is on-set as a technical advisor. Earp has other ties to Hollywood as well, as his former girlfriend, Christina (Patricia Hodge) is now the wife of studio chief Alfie Alperin (Malcolm McDowell). When Christina asks Earp to look into allegations about her son, he and Mix instead find a dead body, leading them into a web of Tinseltown deception that includes gangsters, prostitution, and corruption.