The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023)
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A traveling salesman finds himself caught in a deadly Mexican standoff at a remote desert filling station after two bank robbers arrive.
The story
In the 1970s, a traveling knives salesman stops at a remote filling station in Yuma County, Arizona, only to find the pumps are dry. While waiting for a refueling truck, he hears of a nearby bank robbery involving a green Ford Pinto. The situation turns dire when the two robbers arrive at the station, holding the salesman and a waitress at gunpoint. They demand the patrons behave normally until the truck arrives, unaware that the truck has actually overturned miles away. As more people gather at the diner, the tension escalates into a volatile standoff.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In 1970s Arizona, a traveling knives salesman stops at a dry filling station in Yuma County. He learns of a $700,000 bank robbery and soon encounters the two robbers, Travis and Beau, in their getaway car. The robbers hold the salesman and a waitress, Charlotte, at gunpoint, demanding they act normally until a refueling truck arrives. However, the truck is actually overturned miles away. As an elderly couple, two aspiring criminals, and a local rancher arrive, a Mexican standoff ensues. Charlotte stabs Beau, sparking a shootout that kills everyone except the salesman and a young woman named Sybil, whom the salesman kills in self-defense. The salesman takes the loot and siphons fuel from the rancher's truck. He is then interrupted by a young couple with a baby; in a scuffle, he kills them both but accidentally shoots his own gas tank. He leaves the baby behind and flees. The sheriff, seeking vengeance for Charlotte's death, pursues him. The salesman, running out of gas near the wrecked truck, ignites a trail of gas, causing an explosion that kills the sheriff as the salesman escapes with the money.
- First release year
- 2023
- Runtime (minutes)
- 90
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Francis Galluppi
- Writers
- Francis Galluppi · writer
- Cast and characters
- Jim Cummings; Jocelin Donahue; Richard Brake; Faizon Love; Michael Abbott Jr.
- Genres
- neo-Western; crime thriller
- Themes
- survival; greed; violence
- Tone and mood
- tense; violent
- Setting
- Yuma County, Arizona in the 1970s
- Premise and plot tags
- bank robbery; Mexican standoff; survival
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 72 · scale: 100 · review count: 11
- Production trivia
- The film was financed by an executive producer who offered to sell his own house.; The director's music career inspired the project's setting in sparsely populated areas.; The diner set was found at the Four Aces Movie Ranch in Palmdale, California.
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