Adell Aldrich is the daughter of Robert Aldrich and a filmmaker in her own right. Ms. Aldrich began observing her father's production in the late fifties and went on to collaborate on seven of his films during the sixties and seventies, often as a script supervisor.

Once again, Aldrich strays from the herd in this curiously perverse western. On its rawhide surface, The Last Sunset is your standard love triangle with saddle sores. Kirk Douglas, a mean-tempered fugitive with a poet's tongue, flees to Mexico to avoid a warrant. Said document is being served by Sheriff Rock Hudson, who seeks revenge for the murder of his brother-in-law. This prickly pair converge on a cattle ranch, home to “the pretty little girl in the yellow dress,” Kirk's childhood babe, the bucolic Belle (Dorothy Malone), and her fair-haired filly of a daughter, Missy (Carol Lynley). We soon discover that Kirk is a case of (un)arrested development, displaying an infantile lust for Belle. ”I stopped time from touching you,” he says, misty eyed. This deep-seated desire seems fixated on the iconic “yellow dress,” worn first by mom and then Missy. “Lolita with a lariat” will leave you hog-tied and hollerin'.