The Shootist

The Shootist

🎞️ Movie 100 min US
โ˜… 7.6 /10 1976

He's got to face a gunfight once more to live up to his legend once more. To win just one more time.

John Books an aging gunfighter goes to see a doctor he knows for a second opinion after another doctor told him he has a cancer which is terminal. The doctor confirms what the other said. He says Books has a month maybe two left. He takes a room in the boarding house and the son of the woman who runs it recognizes him and tells his mother who he is. She doesn't like his kind but when he tells her of his condition, she empathizes. Her son wants him to teach him how to use a gun. Books tries to tell him that killing is not something he wants to live with. Books, not wanting to go through the agony of dying from cancer, tries to find a quicker way to go.

Cast

John Wayne
John Wayne
J.B. Books
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall
Bond Rogers
Ron Howard
Ron Howard
Gillom Rogers
James Stewart
James Stewart
Dr. Hostetler
Richard Boone
Richard Boone
Sweeney
Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian
Pulford
Bill McKinney
Bill McKinney
Cobb
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan
Marshall Thibido
John Carradine
John Carradine
Beckum
Sheree North
Sheree North
Serepta
Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
Composer
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Bruce Surtees
Cinematographer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

Original Trailer
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Trailer
Original Trailer
The Shootist 1976 theatrical trailer
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Trailer
The Shootist 1976 theatrical trailer
John Landis on THE SHOOTIST
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Featurette
John Landis on THE SHOOTIST