The Last Outlaw
“...Harry Carey's performance as an old-time gunfighter set free after serving a 25-year prison sentence had the quiet dignity of John Wayne's dying gunman in The Shootist.... (B)esides Carey The Last Outlaw starred two other notable screen veterans: Hoot Gibson and Henry B. Walthall, the Little Colonel in The Birth of a Nation. Walthall was perfect as the sheriff who had captured Carey 25 years before, but who now found himself shoved to one side by a younger man versed in the use of squad cars, radio, and all the other paraphernalia of modern police science.... Like Carey and Walthall...Gibson served to remind audiences of a time - not so long ago in 1936 - when Westerns still retained the spirit of ritual purity that was a legacy from William S. Hart, the first great cowboy star....” --Charles Hopkins, UCLA Film Archives