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Genres:
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Drama /
Western /
Music
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Director:
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Don Siegel
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Actors:
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Richard Boone,
Sheree North,
John Wayne,
Lauren Bacall,
Ron Howard,
James Stewart,
Hugh O'Brian,
Bill McKinney,
Harry Morgan,
John Carradine
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Duration:
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100 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)67.5
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Plot Summary:
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John Wayne, in his last film appearance, stars as famed gunfighter J.J. Brooks. After learning from Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart) that he's with one foot in the grave of stomach cancer and has no more than two months to live, he moves into a boarding bordello in Carson See run into by means of Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son, Gillom (Ron Howard), to stop in whispers. But when bit gets around that the old gunslinger is in municipality, curiosity seekers turn forbidden of the woodwork to support a look, and the silly local marshal (Henry Morgan) contemplates a face-off with the legend.... Annoyed sooner than the notice and realizing that if he waits long passably, he'll die in great discomfort, Brooks decides to ask for out his enemies and die down with guns blazing. Anyhow he works to convert the ideal-worshiping Gillom to foreswear the verve of injure b warp he's led. Director Don Siegel fashions a poignant, kindly goodbye to the excessive star, who, his character, was dying of cancer as the film was being shot. A stellar cast, which includes Western stalwarts such as Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian, John Carradine, and Johnny Crawford, adds much to the fog's resonance. As much a meditation on the burden of personality as an elegy for the Old West, it's most revealing in its star's absolute renunciation of violence.
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The Shootist
From the vernissage montage of clips from Wayne's earlier films to the final fabulous shootout in a cavernous saloon,...
The Shootist
Portentous semi-Western melodrama, exact well written and acted all level; the kind-hearted of solidly amusing and circumspect motion picture limerick imagined they didn't make any more.
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