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He rides onscreen in The Shootist afraid that he is dying. The Shootist afraid he'll be killed, but afraid he's dying, which is the last thing we anticipated a John Wayne character would do of his own accord. It is He has outlived his century. A sawbones in the next state has given him the bad news and now he wants to hear it from the lips of Doc Hostetler, who nursed The Shootist back to health after a violent afternoon twenty years ago. The streets are still wide enough to turn a mule train in, but now an abashed little horse trolley runs down the middle of them, and electricity's going to put the horse out of business next year. The pain is way down deep in his back, and he rideson a red The Shootist cushion he stole out of a whorehouse. It doesn't do a damn bit of good. Hostetler hems and haws and comes out with it: cancer. Two months to live, six weeks, maybe less. In the meantime he can do what he wants. After a while he won't feel like doing much. In his time, the Shootist shot a lot of men dead. Out at the livery The Shootist, burnt The Shootist the leather of his saddle, they find his name: J. His arrival in Carson City immediately becomes news. Hostetler steers him over to a boarding house run by the Widow Rogers, who shows him a two-dollar room. It'll do fine. Books settles down to die. But all these gunfighters had the same problem: People weren't content to let them die in bed, because they made too The Shootist a trophy. So there is a tricky dilemma: To die with some measure of dignity, and to avoid being shot in the meantime. As the film opens, Books has eight days. You will be surprised with what gentleness and humanity he lives them, before the inevitable gunfire at the end. And unless you have already discovered that The Shootist Wayne is an actor as well as The Shootist movie star, you will be The Shootist by the dimensions he provides for J. The movie isn't a bit sentimental. Everybody in town wants the bastard dead, except for the Widow Rogers and her son, Gillom. Even Doc Hostetler, who knows what people can go through toward the end of these illnesses, stops Books at the door and advises him point- blank not to wait around and see how things will eventually feel. The Sheriff is almost cheerful at the prospect of Books's approaching end. The Undertaker offers a free funeral, free tombstone, free casket, free flowers, even two mourners thrown in at no extra charge. Lay me The Shootist and parade every damn fool in the state The Shootist me at a dollar a head, half price for children, and then The Shootist me in a gunny sack and shovel me under. Still, eight days are enough to establish the beginnings of human contact. The Widow Rogers is appalled at first to have a killer as her paying guest, but an affection and respect grows up between them. Her kid, Gillom, contracts a case of hero The Shootist even while trying to swindle the Shootist out of his horse. And Wayne, as Books, occupies the substantial center of the film. He vows The Shootist read a newspaper through from front to back before he dies. He sends his Sunday-go-to- meeting clothes out to the cleaners. And he challenges three old Carson City enemies to meet him in the saloon at eleven o'clock Monday morning. It's here that the movie doesn't quite work. We hardly know The Shootist three enemies. We don't know why they'd oblige the Shootist's wish to die in a gunfight. We understand his reasoning, but not theirs. And the movie's final scene, in which Gillom Rogers symbolically steps into the Shootist's boots, is just a little too neat to be real. Westerns probably have to The Shootist along these lines with confrontations and gunfire and heroism, but The Shootist will be remembered for The Shootist quieter scenes that came before. The cast is excellent because it understands the material, and sympathizes with it: James Stewartas the doctor, and Lauren Bacallas the widow, play scenes with Wayne that absolutely make us forget we're watching a movie. Gaunt old John Carradine has been an undertaker all his life; finally they cast him as one. Don Siegel's direction reveals a sensitivity we didn't suspect after films like Dirty Harry. And observe the way John Wayne says "Good The Shootist, Mrs. Rogers" to Lauren Bacall for the last time. Roger The Shootist was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in Inhe won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Ron Howard as The Son. Harry Morgan as The Sheriff. John Carradine as The Undertaker. Richard Boone as The Gunman. Lauren Bacall as The Widow. Hugh O'Brian as The Gambler. John Wayne as The Shootist. James Stewart as The Doctor. Reviews The Shootist. Roger Ebert January 01, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. 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Sign In. Edit The Shootist Books Lauren Bacall Bond Rogers Ron Howard Gillom Rogers James Stewart Hostetler Richard Boone Sweeney Hugh O'Brian Pulford Bill McKinney Cobb Harry Morgan Marshall Thibido John Carradine Beckum Sheree North Serepta Rick Lenz Dobkins The Shootist Richard Lenz Scatman Crothers Moses Gregg Palmer Burly Man Alfred Dennis Barber Dick Winslow Streetcar Driver Melody Thomas Scott School Teacher Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Jack Berle Man Outside Metropole uncredited Johnny Crawford Books' Victim in Flashback archive footage uncredited Chuck The Shootist Extra uncredited George Dunn Man Delivering Headstone The Shootist Duke Fishman Barfly uncredited Christopher George Books' Victim in Flashback archive footage uncredited Jonathan Goldsmith Book's Victim uncredited Leo Gordon Books' Victim in Flashback archive The Shootist uncredited Charles G. Murray the Bartender uncredited Jim Michael Barfly uncredited Ernesto Molinari Barfly uncredited Ricky Nelson Gambler uncredited Nick Raymond Barfly uncredited Henry Slate Pulford The Shootist uncredited Bob Steele Books' Victim in Flashback archive footage uncredited Ralph Volkie White-Haired Bartender uncredited John Zimeas Overton Arthur Piantadosi Mention III Edit page. Best of the classic Westerns. James Stewart. A Listfull of Dollars. Share this page:. Clear your history. Gillom Rogers. Marshall Thibido. Dobkins as Richard Lenz. Streetcar Driver. Girl The Shootist Streetcar as Melody Thomas. School Teacher. Books' Victim in Flashback archive footage uncredited. Murray the Bartender uncredited. Books' Fellow Lawman in Flashback The Shootist footage uncredited. Gambler uncredited. Pulford Confidant uncredited. White-Haired Bartender uncredited. A Real Range For Real People

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