Watch the whole film for the last 5 minutes
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Vera Cruz
OhForGoodnessSake23 — 20 years ago(December 07, 2005 05:20 AM)
What a great ending. Burt Lancaster's character spends the whole film swaggering around playing the big man, and then finds out his mistake right at the end. Fantastic.
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DakotaKitten — 18 years ago(December 03, 2007 08:18 AM)
Actually he liked Cooper and the point of the scene was that he let himself be killed.Cooper was the first friend he ever had.Thats why Cooper cries as he gets up or at least the tears are starting to show.Lancaster allowed himself to be shot dead by the only ever man he liked and called a friend.So in the end he showed he had a heart by dying.
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paulbrasch — 18 years ago(February 08, 2008 07:50 AM)
I don't agree but nicely thought out.
He was a bad man and he misjudged Cooper and he said the next time you draw you better kill me twice before so Cooper , even though he didn't want to, was forced into killing him -
bullit2513 — 18 years ago(March 08, 2008 10:26 AM)
Lancaster didn't intend to die, Cooper's Trane just outdrew him. He's not about to just give up all that money and let himself be shot.
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cowboydesperado-1 — 18 years ago(March 08, 2008 05:04 PM)
I agreeI can't believe that Lancaster's character would choose to die (even via a friend's bullet). I read in an article that Lancaster (a co-producer on the film) had broached the subject to Cooper: 'I don't think we should kill him' (meaning Lancaster's character) and Coop replied: 'OhI wouldn't finish the film if we didn't kill him'.
Alsothe production code (while on the wane) was still in effectthe 'bad' guy had to die
and (as Coop's daughter Maria said in a TCM short tribute to her dad), Coop once gave this instruction to a screenwriter: 'just make me the hero'
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DakotaKitten — 14 years ago(April 12, 2011 11:12 AM)
This film is coming out on blu ray in June, i'm really looking forward to viewing it again and hoping the transfer doesn't use excessive DNR, really keeping my fingers crossed about this release.
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