The Shootist

Release Date:

Aug 11, 1976

MPAA Rating:

PG

Running Time:

1:39

Genre:

Western

Director:

Don Siegel

Cast:

John Wayne	John Bernard Books
Lauren Bacall	Bond Rogers
James Stewart	Dr. E.W. Hostetler
Ron Howard	Gillom Rogers
Richard Boone	Mike Sweeney
Hugh O'Brian	Jack Pulford (faro dealer at Metropole Saloon)
Harry Morgan	Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido
Rick Lenz	Dan Dobkins (reporter, 'Morning Appeal') (as Richard Lenz)
John Carradine	Hezekiah Beckum (undertaker)
Sheree North	Serepta (Books' ex-girlfriend)
Scatman Crothers	Moses Brown (liveryman)

Producers:

M.J. Frankovich , William Self

Writers:

Glendon Swarthout, Scott Hale, Miles Hood Swarthout

Language:

English

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J.B. Books (John Wayne, in his final film role) is an aging gunfighter diagnosed with cancer who comes to Nevada at the turn of the 20th century. Renting a room from widowed Bond Rogers and her son Gillom, Books is confronted by several people of questionable motives, including a man seeking to avenge his brother's death and a few who are looking to profit from Books' notoriety. Not wanting to die a quiet, painful death, Books devises a plan to go out with a bang.

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