We’ve seen them ride off into the sunset at the end of the story, but what happens when the heroes and outlaws, the men of myth and grand adventure, come back late in life to climb back up on the horse for one last ride? Movie fans might remember when Sean Connery played an aged Robin Hood, back from the Crusades for a final fight to the death with the Sheriff of Nottingham, in the movie Robin and Marion. James Arness made an entire career of bringing back an ever-older Matt Dillon in


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