Last Man Standing. 1996.
A drifter becomes a gun for hire in a ghost town that's controlled by two gang families that try to take control of everything and everyone.
A tough gritty film by Walter Hill set in the town of Jericho during the 1930s prohibition with Bruce Willis as the drifter John Smith who makes a enemy quickly and is signed up by Italian Strozzi played by Ned Eizenberg who is the enemy of Doyle played by David Patrick Kelly with his right hand man Hickey played by Christopher Wakken. The acting is great in this from everyone even with Bruce Dern as the local law and William Sanderson as the local bartender.
This is like the usual gangster film with everyone wanting to control something, film noir with Willis describing how things are and how he feels about it and the way he plays the two families against each other is well written and directed and certainly isn't shy of taken a beaten. Hadn't seen this since it first came out and certainly more enjoyable now than before.
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