Last Train from Gun Hill is a 1959 American Western film in VistaVision and Technicolor, directed by John Sturges.

Two old friends, Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas) and Craig Belden (Anthony Quinn), now find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

Assuming it was stolen from his old friend, Morgan travels to the town of Gun Hill to pick up the trail, but once there he quickly realizes that Belden's son Rick (Earl Holliman) is the killer.

Morgan presses the shotgun to Rick's chin on the way to the train depot, threatening to pull the trigger if anyone attempts to stop him.

This is partly conveyed in the manner of Plato’s Gorgias, with Belden a natural leader of men who has built his own private fiefdom at Gun Hill.

For his part, Morgan is a courageous, dutiful marshall of manmade positive law (Kelsen), indeed declaring at one point “I am the law.” Morgan attempts to maintain due process throughout, for example seeking approval of his warrants from the corrupt local sheriff, attempting to see the accused, Rick, to a courthouse, and refusing to initiate violence against Belden.

The dynamic is seen in Linda’s character arc: describing herself early on as someone who never gave much attention to rules, she finds in Morgan a hero lawman who could save Gun Hill from Belden's abusive control, but in the denouement she surveys the results of Morgan’s law enforcement and turns her eyes from him in disappointment.