The Last Movie is a 1971 metafictional drama film directed by Dennis Hopper, who also stars as a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas.

It is written by Stewart Stern, based on a story by Hopper and Stern, and stars an extensive supporting cast including Stella Garcia, Don Gordon, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams, Sylvia Miles, Samuel Fuller, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Tomas Milian, Toni Basil, Severn Darden, Henry Jaglom, Rod Cameron, Kris Kristofferson and Michelle Phillips.

The plot follows a disenfranchised stuntman (Hopper), who begins a filmmaking-centric cargo cult among Peruvian natives after going into self-imposed exile.

Greenlit after the success of Hopper's previous film Easy Rider, Universal Pictures gave the director/star complete creative control over the project, which was budgeted at $1 million and was shot in Peru.

Dissatisfied with the finished product, Universal Pictures gave the film a staggered, limited release under multiple alternative titles.

Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed while doing a stunt, he decides to quit the movie business and stay in Peru with a local woman.

[1] Hopper said, "I had time to fantasise as to what would happen when we left this village, leaving behind all the movie set fronts built on their existing adobe houses and church.

The other four were The Hired Hand, Taking Off, Silent Running, and American Graffiti, directed by Peter Fonda, Miloš Forman, Douglas Trumbull, and George Lucas, respectively.

[4] (Hopper wanted to follow The Last Movie with another film called Second Chance about him and Fonda trying to raise money to make Easy Rider.

[1] Hopper spent much of 1970 in Peru,[6] bringing many of his actor and musician friends to that country, including singer Kris Kristofferson and director Samuel Fuller, and shooting the film under the working title Chinchero.

He was in a period of severe alcohol and drug abuse, as shown in an extremely rare and barely released documentary titled The American Dreamer, directed by Lawrence Schiller and L.M.

He was mocked over it by his friend, cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who urged him to edit the film unconventionally and attempt to break new cinematic ground.

On August 16, 2018, Arbelos Films, Vidiots & American Cinematheque hosted the Los Angeles 4K restoration premiere at Sid Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California.