The facts are these. Cowboy Tom Mix left the range to become one of the most popular silent-screen stars ever, second only to the legendary William S. Hart.

Fact two. In the 1920s, Hollywood really did entice legendary 19th century Marshall Wyatt Earp to visit tinsel-town, where he acted as a technical consultant to the fledgling movie industry.

Those are the facts. But facts, as this movie mentions more than once, are best embellished with one or two lies.

And this lie is a pretty entertaining one. In this movie, the young Tom Mix (Bruce Willis, in a role shot in the same year he made the far more memorable Die Hard) becomes a firm friend of the ageing but still laconically attractive Wyatt Earp (James Garner).

Such firm friends in fact that together they face down the law and the assembled forces of Hollywood corruption, and solve a particularly nasty murder-mystery which involves vice, sadism and potential blackmail. And after all, when Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp combine to solve a murder, what hope do the men in the big black hats have?

Willis and Garner make a good team, with Garner easily stealing most scenes - though Malcolm McDowell as arch-fiend film producer and studio-head Alfie Alperin makes a particularly good fist of his role.

It's part comedy, part drama, with the pedestrian director Blake Edwards fairly mundane as usual, and never quite seeming to decide just what he's directing. It's very slight, but is quite pleasing in a very non-demanding way.

As for the title, it doesn't refer to Wyatt Earp's age at all -- James Garner still seems pretty fit for someone with Wyatt Earp's history. I think it's a gag about the traditional ending of silent cinema westerns, where the hero usually rode off alone into the sunset. In this movie, so does Wyatt - but using a train instead of a horse.

This is a pretty decent anamorphic widescreen transfer, with no obvious damage. The soundtrack has good overall depth and presence, with very marked stereo effects.

There are no extras to speak of, save for two widescreen trailers, for Silverado and Buck and the Preacher.