Last Man Standing (1996)

In a dusty, Prohibition-era Texas border town, a lone-wolf hit-man richochets between rival mobs, pinning his allegiance to whomever offers more money for his services. But when he sticks his neck out to help a woman, he ends up risking more than money--he risks developing a conscience. Hill patterned his film after Kurosawa's legendary 1961 YOJIMBO.

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The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze racket. Strozzi (Ned Eisenberg) leads a gang of Italian rum-runners with the help of his right-hand-man Giorgio (Michael Imperioli), while Doyle (David Patrick Kelly) is the head of an Irish mob, with Hickey (Christopher Walken) serving as his enforcer; the town's sheriff, Ed Galt (Bruce Dern) is powerless to stop the ...
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crime in Jericho, and he mainly tries to stay out of the way and keep an uneasy peace between Strozzi and Doyle. John Smith (Bruce Willis) is a ruthless and amoral gunman on the run from the law who passes through Jericho on his way to Mexico. Sizing up the situation, Smith quickly hatches a scheme by which he'll sell his services first to one of the gangs, and then the other, eventually turning the two sides against each other while he stays in the middle and takes the profits generated by both sides. Writer and director Walter Hill based his screenplay on Akira Kurosawa's classic samurai picture Yojimbo, which also inspired Sergio Leone's ground-breaking spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars.
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Huurling John Smith (Bruce Willis) arriveert tijdens de drooglegging in het Texaanse grensstadje Jericho, waar twee rivaliserende gangsterbendes drank het land in smokkelen. Hij sluit zich aan bij de bende van Strozzi (Ned Eisenberg), maar ook bij die van zijn rivaal Doyle (David Patrick Kelly). Zodra hij het vertrouwen heeft gewonnen van beide bendeleiders, begint hij zijn gevaarlijke plan om ze tegen elkaar uit te spelen. De enige die het dubbelspel door heeft is de gewetenloze Hickey (Christopher Walken). Plotseling heeft iedereen het op Smith gemunt en er rest hem daarom niets anders dan het ontketenen van de...
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ultieme bendeoorlog.
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