Sunset

Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy star ...more

Sunset builds its fictional story around a real-life relationship - the friendship that developed between sheriff Wyatt Earp and western screen star Tom Mix in 1920s Hollywood. History records that the two became acquainted on Tinseltown movie sets, and that Mix served as pallbearer at Earp's funeral. In this feature - co-scripted by director Blake Edwards and Rod Amateau -- Bruce Willis and James Garner are Mix and Earp (respectively), and together they get involved in a murder mystery ...more