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  • Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone
  • Directors: Don Siegel
  • Writers: Glendon Swarthout, Miles Hood Swarthout, Scott Hale
  • Producers: M.J. Frankovich, William Self
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Jun 2005
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00009PBRO
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,312 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, 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 Bacall) and her son (Ron Howard), Wayne's character opts for peace in his final days but is dogged by his reputation when a handful of killers seeks him out for a final fight. Howard is fine as a fatherless boy who needs the strong mentor the hero represents, and James Stewart--who costarred with Wayne in the great Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--plays the doctor who gives the big man the bad news. Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) thoughtfully directs a very special and sensitive production. --Tom Keogh

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John Wayne's last film The Shootist could not have been more fitting; it's 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 Bacall) and her son (Ron Howard), Wayne's character opts for peace in his final days but is dogged by his reputation when a handful of killers seeks him out for a final fight. Howard is fine as a fatherless boy who needs the strong mentor the hero represents and James Stewart--who costarred with Wayne in the great Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--plays the doctor who gives the big man the bad news. Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) thoughtfully directs a very special and sensitive production. --Tom Keogh

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting eulogy to the film career of John Wayne, 11 Nov 2004
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Shootist [VHS] [1976] (VHS Tape)
It is totally fitting that John Wayne's last film is an obvious eulogy for his legendary career as the greatest Western star of them all. Like many others, I have always thought the Duke need this when he made "The Shootist." This 1976 film, directed by Don Siegel, begins with a montage of gunfights from Wayne's career, thereby establishing the reputation of his character, J. B. Books. It is 1901 and Books rides into Carson City to visit his old friend, Doctor E.W. Hostetler (Jimmy Stewart). The doctor's verdict is that Books is dying of cancer and does not have long to live. Books knows the rightness of this, because in an age of automobiles and electricity there is no place for an old gunfighter. But his reputation means Books will be denied a quiet death: the barber saves clippings of his hair to sell and the undertaker plans to exhibit his corpse. Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall), the widow who runs the boarding house where he is staying, wants to send him packing, not only because of all the men he has killed but because her son Gillom (Ron Howard) thinks Books is a hero. Books tries to explain the code by which he has lived, but the boy cannot understand. Meanwhile, several gunfighters who would love to be the one to gun down the famous Books have arrived in town. Books sees an opportunity to die on his own terms, in one last epic gunfight.

"The Shootist" is a film of remarkable restraint, that achieves a wonderful eloquence. Wayne and Bacall have some nice scenes together as the widow becomes fond of the dying gunman. But it is the dynamic between Wayne and Howard that drives the film, as the gunman tries to explain to the hero worshipping boy that killing men is not a heroic enterprise. Ultimately, it is left to the boy to learn that lesson for himself and finally get the stamp of approval from his hero. It is impossible to watch "The Shootist" and not think of Wayne's last appearance at the Academy Awards, shortly before his death, when the cancer that would claim his life had reduced his body to a gaunt figure. Life does not always imitate art. But no other major star in the history of film did a better job of going out on their own terms.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Duke says godbye, 21 May 2004
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The simple fact that this is the last film of the long and amazing carrer of America's most beloved actor, John Wayne, would make this an historic film. However "The Shootist" is more than that, it is in fact a very good western. Director Don Siegel author of such classics like "Dirty Harry" and "Escape from Alcatraz" gives Wayne a chance to once more prove how mutch of an actor he was. Portraing a dyng gunfigther who his a living legend in a West that as already changed (the film is set in 1901)Wayne's caracther represents the pain of a man that has outlived his time and has no place in the future, and so in his last film Wayne represents all the things that has changed in America by 1976, including the western genre itself.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, 7 Jan 2004
If you have a Western heart see this movie. It is a timeless classic featuring 3 of the greatest actors. Not a classic shoot-out but a well crafted film. You will not be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars John Wayne's last film
'The Shootist' was the last film John Wayne ever made. I have never been a fan of his, thinking his acting was incredibly wooden, and his films so corny and jingoistic.. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Mr. C. J. Leaton

4.0 out of 5 stars "The Shootist"
How can you really describe this? John Wayne, dying from cancer, makes his last film as an aging gunfighter, dying from cancer. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars A fitting final swansong for a legend
The shootist is a very good film about a dying legend, admired and feared in equal measure who must make the choice about dying naturally or going out in the manner in which he... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars "The Duke" rides out in style.
How fitting that the Duke should go out of films on a high note. He had gone through a long period of making mediocre films. Almost as if he were on auto pilot. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Bob Salter

5.0 out of 5 stars The Western to end All Westerns
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... Read more
Published 12 months ago by G. A. Readman

5.0 out of 5 stars Farewell The Duke
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,... Read more
Published 13 months ago by DONJAUN

5.0 out of 5 stars At last showing he really could act..................
this isn't just another John Wayne cowboy - I tamed the Wild West alone - movie this is Wayne at his best and most convincing. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Inmi Opinion

5.0 out of 5 stars John Wayne going out fighting
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. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2007 by S J Buck

5.0 out of 5 stars His best film ever
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. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great closing chapter in Wayne's western career
This movie is captivating from the beginning. Not the usual Wayne as we know him eg. Rooster Cockburn bu ta dying man. Read more
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