| The Shootist [1976] | ![The Shootist [1976]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X71CB83VL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Don Siegel
Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 8398
Format: Hifi Sound, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 95 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
UPC: 780063193634
EAN: 0780063193634
ASIN: B00004CLAM
Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 1976
Release Date: January 1, 1996
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The Western to end All Westerns July 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All I have got to say is that John Wayne redeems himself in this, his final movie. I got so disillusioned with him in True Grit, Rooster Cockburn and Brannigan that I had to make a hard decision about whether I should watch this film at all. I made the right decision. I consider myself an aficianado of the genre, and this Western was a Western to end all Westerns. John Wayne knew it and he put every last drop of his being into it. Sadly, very few notable Westerns were made subsequent to this apart from Tom Horn.
All wonderful stuff.
Farewell The Duke June 5, 2008
John Wayne"s final movie is a brilliant finale to a wonderful acting career.Superbly directed by Don Siegel with a superb supporting cast,Stewart,Bacall and Howard are excellent, this is a wonderful film.
At last showing he really could act.................. August 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this isn't just another John Wayne cowboy - I tamed the Wild West alone - movie this is Wayne at his best and most convincing.He plays his part so well that you really care what happens to him and you want him to be treated fairly and respectfully especially when he re-meets Sheree North.He made many classic western films, many with director John Ford and also some real stinkers but in this he plays an ageing gun-fighter or shootist who told he has cancer and only weeks to live wants to spend his final days in peaceful oblivion.He doesn't get his wish and ends up in a shoot out with 3 unsavoury characters from his past. He is given able support in this film by Lauren Bacall, Howard-now a big director - playing her son, with what amount to no more than cameo roles from Stewart, Boone,O'Brian. Apparently when they heard it was probably his last role, as his real life battle with cancer had begun again, all these big names queued up to get their respective parts taking a dramatic wages cut in the process because they held him in such high esteem.
John Wayne going out fighting February 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has to be 5 stars. John Wayne was dying of cancer at the time the film was being made. He plays an aging gunfighter who is dying of cancer. In the wrong hands this could be a disaster, but it isn't and its a great film.
This has a fantastic cast: As well as John Wayne there is also Lauren Bacall, James Stewart a young Ron Howard (then famous for Happy Days) and a few other well known faces.
The director is Don Siegel, one of the very best from the 70's. Elegiac is a word that has been used a lot to sum up this film and I think this comes from Siegels direction and a marvellous script, both of which brilliantly portray the end of an era (the old west), and of course the last film from an iconic American film star.
His best film ever January 7, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This film is just fantastic. Thos who says that the Duke couldn't act should see this. He's weak, he's old, he dies. During the film (in which he plays a man dying of cancer) the Duke was diagnosed with cancer, in a surreal example of life imitating art. There are two fantastic scenes. One, already mentioned by another reviewer is the creed which the character lives by. It's my favourite piece of film dialogue ever, and is just tailored beautifully for the Duke's delivery. the second scene, which nobody ever mentions, comes just before the final shoot-out. The Duke is on his way into a bar to face three potential assassins. he knows he will die. he wants to die. As he walsk into the bar, he stops and looks right at a car, the new "fad" in the quikly developing west. It's as if this simple look makes the viewer realise that the times were indeed changin and with the passing of the Duke we were in many ways saying goodbye to a particular time, namely the western period. This is a sad, beautiful and fantastic film, played by a wonderful cast (the Duke is fgreat but for me Lauren Bacall get's the award as she is simply mesmerising in her role). My greatest film ever. All those guys who think that Scarface is the cooolest way to go and the coolest film icon - see this film and realise that nobody, but nobody, could ever beat John Wayne.
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