A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas (Dennis Hopper), decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria (Stella Garcia). But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery...
The Guardian Interview with Dennis Hopper (1990, 91 mins): archival audio recording of the filmmaker and actor in conversation with critic Derek Malcolm at London's National Film Theatre Dennis Hopper Video Introduction (2007, 2 mins)
Scene Missing (2012, 50 mins): documentary directed by Alex Cox on the making of 'The Last Movie'
Some Kind of Genius (1986, 30 mins): Paul Joyce's documentary portrait of Dennis Hopper Postcards from Peru (2018, 32 mins): new interviews with members of the Peruvian cast and crew
8mm On-set Footage (1970, 10 mins, silent): rare and previously unseen material shot on location by actors John Phillip Law and Victor Maymudes
The Dick Cavett Show (1971, 7 mins): extract from the popular US chat show, featuring an interview with Hopper
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