The Shootist

The Shootist is a 1976 Western film directed by Don Siegel and starring John Wayne in his final film role. The picture is about a dying gunfighter who spends his last days looking for a way to die with the least pain and the most dignity.

The story begins with a clip montage of some of John Waynes earlier western films, such as Rio Bravo, depicting the life of the legendary shootist gunfighter John Bernard J. B. Books. Ron Howard narrates the opening of the film and points out that Books was not merely a gunfighter but a lawman. In his narration, Howard mentions the creed that Books lived by I will not be wronged, I will not be insulted and I will not be laid a hand on. I do not do these things to other people and I require the same from them. An aging Books arrives in Carson City, Nevada on January 22, 1901. In a newspaper he reads that Great Britains Queen Victoria has died. After a stranger calls him an old man and barks at him in the street to get out of the way, Books laments that the Old West is dying too. ........

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