An underrated little film about the efforts of the British Army to protect the British Empire in Kurdistan, THE LAST OUTPOST depicts the friendship that is formed between two soldiers (Cary Grant and Claude Rains) as they help native refugees to safety. Their bond soon comes under the ultimate test as they vie for the love of the same woman (Gertrude Michael). This film is extremely predictable, but Grant and Rains develop a unique and genuine on-screen chemistry that infuses much of the picture with a invaluable sense urgency and interest. The film is marred somewhat by the sloppy incorporation of woefully inconsistent stock footage (which looks to be of a completely different stock and shot at a different speed) into various moments, which is often distracting, but fortunately does not undermine the picture as a whole.
12 Reviews
Different directors make for a rather choppy scenario!
JohnHowardReid13 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
On the surface, this is a moderately entertaining adventure/romance whose plot follows a very familiar path indeed. But a number of factors make the film of some interest to the student or connoisseur, even if they don't make it any more entertaining. One is the incorporation of vast amounts of obviously-filmed-at-silent-speed stock footage including copious excerpts from Grass (1926). Aside from the obvious giveaway of the speed factor, however, the excerpts have been quite skilfully matched to the new material.
Another factor is the interesting cast deployed in these antics, including Akim Tamiroff in an uncredited but most impressive cameo as Grant's fellow-prisoner. Claude Rains, as usual, is interesting, even if his talents are virtually wasted in a role that is not only stereotyped but is handicapped with rather ordinary and mundane dialogue to boot. Miss Burke has only a small and insignificant part with no dialogue at all, while Miss Michael makes a rather late entrance (as does Billy Bevan who provides one of his delightful Cockney cameos).
It is obvious that a different director is at work on Miss Michael's scenes - which are filmed mainly in rather ordinary close-ups (Miss M. is not too flatteringly photographed, though her costumes are nice) - than on the desert location scenes which are not only staged in a way to match in the stock footage but display a certain inventiveness of composition in their own right. Undoubtedly these desert location scenes and all the action footage was directed by Gasnier, with Max Marcin, his long-time collaborator, handling the dialogue direction, while Barton and Potter were responsible for the studio and hospital scenes which occupy the middle portion of the film. Gasnier and Marcin had worked with Grant very successfully in 1933 on Gambling Ship but don't have the same success here, as Grant does not have the strong characterization Marcin and Seton I. Miller wrote for him on Gambling Ship.
I like the music score under the romantic passages and production credits generally are A-1.
This unknown and obscure romance adventure movie results to be an acceptable film with two great actors , Gary Grant and Claude Rains
ma-cortes22 September 2020
An adventure and thrilling movie about the reckless British soldiers fighting in the remote Kurdishtan . During WW1, the destinies of two British officers Michael Andrews (Gary Grant) and John Stevenson (Claude Rains) are intermingled on and on . British-officer Michael Andrews is captured by a gang of raiders on the Eastern Front , and is rescued by a man calling himself John Stevenson. Both of whom help save an entire Kurdish tribe : The Balkari, from a slaughter by crossing a river and an arduous journey of the unfortunate nomads and also avert a surprise assault on the British army-unit stationed there . Along the way , at the battle front , Michael is wounded and he is healed by a nurse (Gertrude Michael), and both of them fall in love . Later on , their lives once again are interspersed in a far garrison in which appears to have the possibility of no survivors among the defenders and they come face-to-face against enemies that are under a bloody attack . Men of steel in an empire of fire! They wanted an assignment in Hell...and a woman gave them the job! A great desert , thundering path of empire , the fanatic Kurdish horsemen and the hordes of Sudan warriors . And the crowning spectacle of the two men who carved a saga of battle and love across the deserts , jungles and towering peaks of the Kurdishtan .
Moving and thrilling movie set in Kurdishtan and Sudan in the turbulent beginning of the 20th century , during WWI . It is a rousing , stirring tale , but rough-edged fare . Entertaining adventure set in the Kurdishtan desert , jungles and mountains where our starring Gary Grant is imprioned and freed by Claude Rains , subsequently suffering an injured leg and is sent to the British military-hospital in Cairo where meets his love . As our two protagonists : Gary Grant and Claude Rains seem intertwined on the battleground as much as on a more personal level . Being freely based on a short story "The Drum" by Britten Austin , adaptated by prestigious Charles Brackett , Billy Wilder's regular , and screenplay by Philip MacDonald . The latter was a notorious novelist and expert horseman who prior to World War I he trained horses bought from Argentina for the British army, and when war broke out he enlisted in the army and was posted to a cavalry unit in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) . This ¨The last outpost¨ contains noisy adventures , thrills , action , romance , battles and an exciting end . But including a lot of stock footage from a native migration that are taken from Merian C. Cooper's documentary Grass (1925) and other shots from Four Feathers (1929 silent version) regarding the battle scenes in the later half of the movie . The film develops an enjoyable relationship beteween two men by forming a strange friendship , only spoiled by a woman who turns out to be the damsel who falls in love for both . Gary Grant gives a nice acting in his usual style as the brave officer harassed by enemies . And Claude Rains as another undercover Brit officer who has not seen nor heard from his wife in over three years . Support cast is pretty good , such as Billy Bevan , Claude King , brief appearance by Akim Tamiroff and Kathleen Burke of Island of the lost souls , among others .
It packs atmospheric cinematography in brilliant black and white , filmed in exteriors but mostly shot in studios , Iverson Ranch - 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, and Paramount Studios ,Melrose Avenue , Universal Studios City Plaza , Universal City , California . The motion picture was professionally directed by Charles Barton and Louis J. Gasnier, though it has some flaws , gaps and failures . Director Charles Barton was a prolific craftsman who directed as Television episodes as cinema , as he made a lot of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello vehicles , such as : Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello meet the killer Boris Karloff , Africa screams and other films as Hell town , Toby Tyler and Shaggy dog . Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable adventure movie . An attractive film and better than expected .
Moving and thrilling movie set in Kurdishtan and Sudan in the turbulent beginning of the 20th century , during WWI . It is a rousing , stirring tale , but rough-edged fare . Entertaining adventure set in the Kurdishtan desert , jungles and mountains where our starring Gary Grant is imprioned and freed by Claude Rains , subsequently suffering an injured leg and is sent to the British military-hospital in Cairo where meets his love . As our two protagonists : Gary Grant and Claude Rains seem intertwined on the battleground as much as on a more personal level . Being freely based on a short story "The Drum" by Britten Austin , adaptated by prestigious Charles Brackett , Billy Wilder's regular , and screenplay by Philip MacDonald . The latter was a notorious novelist and expert horseman who prior to World War I he trained horses bought from Argentina for the British army, and when war broke out he enlisted in the army and was posted to a cavalry unit in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) . This ¨The last outpost¨ contains noisy adventures , thrills , action , romance , battles and an exciting end . But including a lot of stock footage from a native migration that are taken from Merian C. Cooper's documentary Grass (1925) and other shots from Four Feathers (1929 silent version) regarding the battle scenes in the later half of the movie . The film develops an enjoyable relationship beteween two men by forming a strange friendship , only spoiled by a woman who turns out to be the damsel who falls in love for both . Gary Grant gives a nice acting in his usual style as the brave officer harassed by enemies . And Claude Rains as another undercover Brit officer who has not seen nor heard from his wife in over three years . Support cast is pretty good , such as Billy Bevan , Claude King , brief appearance by Akim Tamiroff and Kathleen Burke of Island of the lost souls , among others .
It packs atmospheric cinematography in brilliant black and white , filmed in exteriors but mostly shot in studios , Iverson Ranch - 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, and Paramount Studios ,Melrose Avenue , Universal Studios City Plaza , Universal City , California . The motion picture was professionally directed by Charles Barton and Louis J. Gasnier, though it has some flaws , gaps and failures . Director Charles Barton was a prolific craftsman who directed as Television episodes as cinema , as he made a lot of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello vehicles , such as : Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello meet the killer Boris Karloff , Africa screams and other films as Hell town , Toby Tyler and Shaggy dog . Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable adventure movie . An attractive film and better than expected .
Hilariously Silly
Vince_In_Milan3 April 2002
This is a pretty bog-standard tale, and you've almost certainly seen it done before. Two men who fall in love with the same woman during wartime. Claude Rains plays the stodgy but noble-minded husband while Cary Grant is the suave outsider. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
What is absolutely WONDERFUL about this movie is that the studio tried to save money by recycling scenes from an earlier, silent version of the same (?) film. On paper it made a sort of sense, the earlier film had enjoyed a bigger budget with lots of extras and so on. Unfortunately no-one took into account the film stock and frames per second differences between the two films.
So there you are, watching what seems like a low-budget pot boiler. Suddenly you're thrust into a blurry, gritty shot of hundreds of natives moving VERY quickly and jerkily for a couple of seconds. And then we're back to normal tempos and film stock.
OK, it's not much to write home about but it's quite a fun effect.
What is absolutely WONDERFUL about this movie is that the studio tried to save money by recycling scenes from an earlier, silent version of the same (?) film. On paper it made a sort of sense, the earlier film had enjoyed a bigger budget with lots of extras and so on. Unfortunately no-one took into account the film stock and frames per second differences between the two films.
So there you are, watching what seems like a low-budget pot boiler. Suddenly you're thrust into a blurry, gritty shot of hundreds of natives moving VERY quickly and jerkily for a couple of seconds. And then we're back to normal tempos and film stock.
OK, it's not much to write home about but it's quite a fun effect.
Two heroes, one woman, a difficult choice.
mark.waltz28 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This desert adventure first shows Cary Grant being dragged into a Sudan prison where he witnesses a group of already imprisoned enemies of his captors being shot to death by a firing squad. Certain that he will be next, Grant is shocked when one of the officers (Claude Rains) turns out to be his rescuer. He returns to civilization, falls in love with nurse Gertrude Michael and later discovers that she is married. Rains returns, realizes the truth about his wife, and sets out to confront the man he rescued.
Adventure, romance and possible revenge are the orders of the day in this fast-moving gun and sandals where Grant is literally saved by the enemy as Rains confronts him. It is difficult to watch this scene without laughing because of the way the cameras speed up in the editing process to make the enemies move super fast.
The scenes following the confrontation are fraught with tension and the performances from both Grant and Rains are superb. Set in a part of the world during the great war other than Europe, this is exciting from start to finish. Certainly, there are a ton of clichés, but sometimes that is exactly what makes these movies so much fun.
Adventure, romance and possible revenge are the orders of the day in this fast-moving gun and sandals where Grant is literally saved by the enemy as Rains confronts him. It is difficult to watch this scene without laughing because of the way the cameras speed up in the editing process to make the enemies move super fast.
The scenes following the confrontation are fraught with tension and the performances from both Grant and Rains are superb. Set in a part of the world during the great war other than Europe, this is exciting from start to finish. Certainly, there are a ton of clichés, but sometimes that is exactly what makes these movies so much fun.
A WW I tale of romance and conflict on a broader map than Europe
SimonJack15 May 2022
"The Last Outpost" is billed as an adventure film but it mostly resembles a sword and sandal picture, with a segment in the middle that provides for development of a romance. The film is based on a novel by British author F. Britten Austin, "The Drum." The time is World War I, and the story centers around two British officers and their "adventures." Cary Grant plays Captain Michael Andrews who commands an armored unit, and Claude Rains plays Captain John Stevenson, whom Grant knows only as Smith, because Stevenson is in the British intelligence service. He works undercover to infiltrate enemy forces and maintain liaisons with friendly tribes and cultures.
The setting moves between three locations. The first is in what the movie identifies as Kurdistan, but was actually a larger area then identified as the Kurdish State where that tribal culture dominated others and warred against other cultures that were friendly toward the West. This Western Asia area encompasses large portions of Turkey, Syria, and the countries of the South Caucasus near the Caspian Sea and Black Sea.
The second setting is in Cairo where Andrews is treated for a broken leg in the British hospital, and where he meets and falls in love with his nurse, Rosemary Haydon. The third setting is In the Sudan of North Africa, including the endless sand dunes and then the bordering jungle.
There's a little mystery and intrigue in this - between the two male leads, that also involves nurse Haydon. Besides the fighting in the last part between British soldiers and hostile African desert tribes, the first segment especially has some excellent filming of a mass migration. The friendly tribes are fleeing an advancing Kurd attack, and cross a swollen river with people, sheep, carts and goods being swept downstream. In the last segment of the Sudan, Africans set fire to the jungle to flush out Stevenson and Andrews, and it shows panicking and stampeding animals - monkeys, hippos, various cats, and more.
The story of the characters seems to be woven into the bigger picture of a world war that involves peoples, tribes, and cultures across a vast area. But it doesn't do that very well. This wasn't the trench-warfare of France that WW I has been mostly identified with; but may be a better picture of the overall worldwide dimension of the war.
This doesn't give away the gist of the romance and relationship of the two men, but it shouldn't be too hard to guess the details. While Rains and Grant were stars and leading men of cinema by 1935, Gertrude Michael had been mostly in supporting roles. She was an up-and-coming actress at Paramount who didn't reach stardom. She made lots of movies, some with very good supporting roles into the early 1950s. That decade was spent mostly working for television. She never married, but had a long affair as an alcoholic and died in Los Angeles in 1964, at age 53.
The setting moves between three locations. The first is in what the movie identifies as Kurdistan, but was actually a larger area then identified as the Kurdish State where that tribal culture dominated others and warred against other cultures that were friendly toward the West. This Western Asia area encompasses large portions of Turkey, Syria, and the countries of the South Caucasus near the Caspian Sea and Black Sea.
The second setting is in Cairo where Andrews is treated for a broken leg in the British hospital, and where he meets and falls in love with his nurse, Rosemary Haydon. The third setting is In the Sudan of North Africa, including the endless sand dunes and then the bordering jungle.
There's a little mystery and intrigue in this - between the two male leads, that also involves nurse Haydon. Besides the fighting in the last part between British soldiers and hostile African desert tribes, the first segment especially has some excellent filming of a mass migration. The friendly tribes are fleeing an advancing Kurd attack, and cross a swollen river with people, sheep, carts and goods being swept downstream. In the last segment of the Sudan, Africans set fire to the jungle to flush out Stevenson and Andrews, and it shows panicking and stampeding animals - monkeys, hippos, various cats, and more.
The story of the characters seems to be woven into the bigger picture of a world war that involves peoples, tribes, and cultures across a vast area. But it doesn't do that very well. This wasn't the trench-warfare of France that WW I has been mostly identified with; but may be a better picture of the overall worldwide dimension of the war.
This doesn't give away the gist of the romance and relationship of the two men, but it shouldn't be too hard to guess the details. While Rains and Grant were stars and leading men of cinema by 1935, Gertrude Michael had been mostly in supporting roles. She was an up-and-coming actress at Paramount who didn't reach stardom. She made lots of movies, some with very good supporting roles into the early 1950s. That decade was spent mostly working for television. She never married, but had a long affair as an alcoholic and died in Los Angeles in 1964, at age 53.
WW 1 Soap OK with Grant in the Lead - The Last Outpost
arthur_tafero24 March 2022
War movies were not really the long suit of Cary Grant. He was much more comfortable in lighter roles which displayed his formidable wit and humor. He is featured in this rather common triangle formula with Claude Rains, who occasionally goes over the top, ala Vincent Price and others, but still gives a believable performance. I know if I were a woman, Rains would not have a chance against Grant in a triangle. For soap lovers only.
Another Iraq War
bkoganbing22 November 2010
The Last Outpost finds Cary Grant and Claude Rains as British Army officers in that backwater theater of World War I, Mesopotamia. Today we know it as Iraq.
It's fascinating how things change, in this film it's the Kurds who are the nasty villains, working on behalf of the Ottoman Empire and facing the British here. When we meet Cary Grant as the film opens, he's being dragged into camp as a prisoner.
But the guy who dragged him in is Claude Rains in a Turkish army uniform. But wait, it turns out he's a spy working for British Intelligence and he frees Grant and also saves an Armenian tribe from being massacred.
While convalescing in hospital Grant falls for his beautiful nurse Gertrude Michael. She kind of likes him, but she's slightly married though it was a quickie romance that didn't really take. Guess who she's married to?
A lot of nice action here makes up for just another wartime triangle. But Claude Rains is such a superb actor, that man could make any kind of drivel look good.
It's fascinating how things change, in this film it's the Kurds who are the nasty villains, working on behalf of the Ottoman Empire and facing the British here. When we meet Cary Grant as the film opens, he's being dragged into camp as a prisoner.
But the guy who dragged him in is Claude Rains in a Turkish army uniform. But wait, it turns out he's a spy working for British Intelligence and he frees Grant and also saves an Armenian tribe from being massacred.
While convalescing in hospital Grant falls for his beautiful nurse Gertrude Michael. She kind of likes him, but she's slightly married though it was a quickie romance that didn't really take. Guess who she's married to?
A lot of nice action here makes up for just another wartime triangle. But Claude Rains is such a superb actor, that man could make any kind of drivel look good.
First half...good. Second half....really, really bad.
planktonrules17 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
"The Last Outpost" is a strange film because the first portion is quite good and the second so god-awful. As a result, I really don't recommend you watch it unless you are a die-hard Cary Grant fan and want to see everything he made...which is why I watched it in the first place.
The story is set during WWI. Michael (Grant) is taken prisoner by Turkish troops backed by local Kurds. Many of the prisoners are murdered but Michael is spirited to safety by a secret agent posing as a Turkish officer. John (Claude Rains) saves Michael and they become friends.
While Michael is convalescing in the hospital, he falls in love with his nurse. However, he later finds out she's already married....but they are both hopelessly in love. When John finds out, he swears to kill Michael...but an uprising by the Sudanese locals* interrupts his plans.
So, although millions of folks were mobilized for the war, Michael just happens to fall in love with the wife of his new best friend. What are the odds???? This is utterly ridiculous...as is what follows. Instead of creating a good ending, the movie re-uses old footage and outfits lots of black extras with Buckwheat wigs...which just seems weird and anachronistic...and bad. Overall, a dopey ending to a film that had, at least for a while, held my attention.
*Why do these Hollywood films glamorize colonialism so much?? After all, the British weren't exactly humanitarians here. Also, why would a guy fighting near the Indian border at the beginning of the film find himself fighting in the Sudan later? It's not like this is a hop, skip and jump away! That's at least 4000 kilometers away and seemed silly. I honestly think they just wrote this into the script so they could re-use this old footage...logical or not.
The story is set during WWI. Michael (Grant) is taken prisoner by Turkish troops backed by local Kurds. Many of the prisoners are murdered but Michael is spirited to safety by a secret agent posing as a Turkish officer. John (Claude Rains) saves Michael and they become friends.
While Michael is convalescing in the hospital, he falls in love with his nurse. However, he later finds out she's already married....but they are both hopelessly in love. When John finds out, he swears to kill Michael...but an uprising by the Sudanese locals* interrupts his plans.
So, although millions of folks were mobilized for the war, Michael just happens to fall in love with the wife of his new best friend. What are the odds???? This is utterly ridiculous...as is what follows. Instead of creating a good ending, the movie re-uses old footage and outfits lots of black extras with Buckwheat wigs...which just seems weird and anachronistic...and bad. Overall, a dopey ending to a film that had, at least for a while, held my attention.
*Why do these Hollywood films glamorize colonialism so much?? After all, the British weren't exactly humanitarians here. Also, why would a guy fighting near the Indian border at the beginning of the film find himself fighting in the Sudan later? It's not like this is a hop, skip and jump away! That's at least 4000 kilometers away and seemed silly. I honestly think they just wrote this into the script so they could re-use this old footage...logical or not.
Good Adventure yarn
searchanddestroy-126 April 2022
Paramount studios was a specialist for such adventure movies, and this from even the twenties. This one is a good example, though not on the same level as THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER or BEAU GESTE. And it is not that well known, despite Cary Grant and Claude Rains presence. I guess one othe earliest films to denounce Armenian people living conditions under the Turkish despotic rule. Maybe the only American film to evoke this too, and I repeat, so early. I am not sure there were so many later. I don't know actually. I don't mind the footage reels, unlike some audiences. If you dig enough to find this gem, I advise you to watch it.
Good War Film, Dull Romance
nafps7 January 2023
The best parts of the film are actually footage from the great Merriam Cooper's documentaries, Mideast and east and north African tribal peoples on the move and in wartime. These are before his part making King Kong.
The film was written around that footage, with Cooper and Rains as soldiers. But the film also included, for obvious box office reasons and to draw in a romance audience that was largely female, a predictable love triangle. This is dull, dull, dull. The female lead is not what many would call attractive, very awkward looking, though tastes certainly change.
Fast forward past the dull romance in the hospital..
The film was written around that footage, with Cooper and Rains as soldiers. But the film also included, for obvious box office reasons and to draw in a romance audience that was largely female, a predictable love triangle. This is dull, dull, dull. The female lead is not what many would call attractive, very awkward looking, though tastes certainly change.
Fast forward past the dull romance in the hospital..
Fun "B" Picture with Great Lead Performances
Michael_Elliott26 March 2017
The Last Outpost (1935)
*** (out of 4)
Entertaining mix of action and romance set during WWI. The film has British soldiers Michael Andrews (Cary Grant) having his life saved by John Stevenson (Claude Rains). While Michael is sent to a hospital after being wounded, John goes back and continues the war efforts. While in the hospital Michael falls in love with his nurse Rosemary (Gertrude Michael) but he doesn't realize she's John's wife.
THE LAST OUTPOST is a film that should probably be better known than it is. This Paramount film is certainly what you'd call a "B" picture but it's certainly highly entertaining and it serves its purpose, which was probably a second feature on a double bill. The film was co-directed by Charles Barton and Louis J. Gasnier, which is quite a strange mix. I'm not sure what the history of the film was and if one was fired and the other hired or what but Barton is best remembered for ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN while Gasnier will always be remembered for REEFER MADNESS.
Back to this film, the main reason to watch it is for the two lead performances. Grant really delivers a strong performance here as he has to play that "good looking hero," which was something he was quite good at doing by this time. He was yet to become a star but all of the ingredients were starting to come together as he handled the romance, the action and the drama quite well. Michael is also good in her role of the love interest, although there's no question that the screenplay didn't do her character any justice. As for Rains, he easily steals the film as the stronger character and of course the second man. I really thought Rains was very believable as this war hero but the scene where he breaks down knowing the love he was coming home to is no longer there shows what a great actor he was.
There are some good action scenes scattered throughout the picture but the non-stop use of stock footage really makes you feel the "B" quality of the picture. This here really could have been an "A" picture but it's obvious Paramount wasn't ready to throw that type of money into a Grant picture. It's really too bad because this could have been an even better movie. As it is, THE LAST OUTPOST is a good "B" picture that remains entertaining throughout its running time.
*** (out of 4)
Entertaining mix of action and romance set during WWI. The film has British soldiers Michael Andrews (Cary Grant) having his life saved by John Stevenson (Claude Rains). While Michael is sent to a hospital after being wounded, John goes back and continues the war efforts. While in the hospital Michael falls in love with his nurse Rosemary (Gertrude Michael) but he doesn't realize she's John's wife.
THE LAST OUTPOST is a film that should probably be better known than it is. This Paramount film is certainly what you'd call a "B" picture but it's certainly highly entertaining and it serves its purpose, which was probably a second feature on a double bill. The film was co-directed by Charles Barton and Louis J. Gasnier, which is quite a strange mix. I'm not sure what the history of the film was and if one was fired and the other hired or what but Barton is best remembered for ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN while Gasnier will always be remembered for REEFER MADNESS.
Back to this film, the main reason to watch it is for the two lead performances. Grant really delivers a strong performance here as he has to play that "good looking hero," which was something he was quite good at doing by this time. He was yet to become a star but all of the ingredients were starting to come together as he handled the romance, the action and the drama quite well. Michael is also good in her role of the love interest, although there's no question that the screenplay didn't do her character any justice. As for Rains, he easily steals the film as the stronger character and of course the second man. I really thought Rains was very believable as this war hero but the scene where he breaks down knowing the love he was coming home to is no longer there shows what a great actor he was.
There are some good action scenes scattered throughout the picture but the non-stop use of stock footage really makes you feel the "B" quality of the picture. This here really could have been an "A" picture but it's obvious Paramount wasn't ready to throw that type of money into a Grant picture. It's really too bad because this could have been an even better movie. As it is, THE LAST OUTPOST is a good "B" picture that remains entertaining throughout its running time.
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