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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 20 August, 1976 DVD Release : 24 July, 2001 |
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The Shootist description The last film of John Wayne could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his life as a star. Wayne plays a career gunfighter in the autumn of his life, trying to hang up his pistols after he discovers he's dying of cancer. Boarding in the house of an attractive widow (Lauren B ... review details |
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| "The Shootist" is one of John Wayne's finest performance, filled with the irony of life imitating art and vice versa, since the Duke and his character in "The Shootist" both knew they were facing death. The cast is replete with heroes from TV and movie westerns, and features great performances by Jimmy Stewart as Doc Hostetler, Lauren Bacall as the widow Rogers, the Duke's would-be love interest, and Ron Howard as Gillam Rogers, the widow's eager teenage son who is coming into manhood.
Wayne plays John Bernard Books, an infamous gunfighter and frontiersman who defines the persona of the rugged Westerner. He comes to Carson City, Nevada to seek out the diagnosis of the only doctor he's ever trusted, Doc Hostetler. The two Hollywood legends play out a classic scene of humor, respect, and finality between two old friends. His worst fears confirmed, Books seeks out a place to play out his final act. He takes a room at the widow Roger's boarding house, and a night doesn't go by before Book's condition becomes the talk of the town, and killers try to dispatch him in the middle of the night. Appalled and frightened by Book's coarse manner and infamous reputation, Bacall's character calls upon Henry Morgan as the town's chatty sheriff Tibodeaux, to throw the Duke out into the street, before all of her boarders move out. And this is where the unique performance by Wayne and the story begins to take shape. Wayne becomes a surrogate father to Gillam and tries to impart his wisdom and guidance on the impressionable young man. And Book's plan to meet his fate begins to unfold. The movie includes classic villian portrayals by Richard Boone, Bill Kenney, and Edmund O'Brien. There are also terrific cameos by John Carradine as the undertaker and Sheree North as Book's long lost love. The beauty of "The Shootist" is that it relies entirely on the strength of the actor's performances and the plot turns of the story. It is a beautifully poignant tribute to the American Western that examines the end of the West as these characters have lived it. It hints at a country ready to trade in the untamed frontier for the progressive evolution of the country as it stands poised to enter the 20th Century. Books and the other characters in "The Shootist" provide one last great hurrah to celebrate what made the taming of the American West such a profound and enduring tradition in American film making. This cast of Hollywood greats and legends show us why they are revered as giants in the film industry. |
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