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Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant ...
Western 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 ...
29 de may. de 2008 · Crítica. . El último film de John Wayne fue un western crepuscular con el que Siegel se despidió del género con una mirada entre nostálgica e irónica. La decadencia de los antiguos héroes y ...
3 de abr. de 2021 · The Shootist. Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son.
Siegel rebounded wth The Shootist (1976), an elegiac western that was the last film made by John Wayne, who played a gunslinger dying of cancer; Wayne would die from cancer-related complications in 1979. The cast—James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Richard Boone, Hugh O’Brian, and John Carradine, among others—was particularly….
14 de nov. de 2017 · It’s being willing. Today on Classic Movie Rev we are taking on a great classic western movie The Shootist (1976), which was John Wayne ’s last movie. Wayne was plagued by cancer during his life, and his death was also linked to cancer. That makes it more interesting that he chose a movie about an elderly gunfighter dying of cancer.
The Shootist is an periodical multilingual journal / The Shootist il Pistolero è un aperiodico multilingua edito La Camera Verde, Rome. The Shootist. Aperiodical multilingual journal / Aperiodico multilingua. The Shootist issue #2 will be soon on-line.
