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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WAYNE,JOHN
EAN: 9780792172642
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792172647
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 5608
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 1976
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A dying gunman returns to his friend for medical care in his last days, but becomes involved with a widow and her son, eventually dying with honor in a final gunfight.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: PG
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
The last film of John Wayne 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Great swan song
Based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout, this movie tells the tale of a famous gunslinger who is heading for his last shootout. The movie follows the book pretty accurately except for a few changes: in the novel, the character of Gillum, the son of the widow played by Lauren Bacall, is a little different from how he was portrayed in the movie, and also the sheriff, played by Henry Morgan, has a much greater role. Swarthout also goes into much more detail about the pain J.B. Books experienced as the ... Read More
Rating: - "THE DUKE " SAVES THE BEST FOR LAST!
'The Shootist' is a great picture, if not a bit eerie that it echoes the tragic fate of it's beloved legendary star. It's even stranger that John Wayne was not the first choice to star in this film! Can you imagine this film with anyone else playing his part? When Wayne was finally cast, many Hollywood stars like Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, Ron Howard and Richard Boone came to "The Duke's" side, and for little or no money gave it their all to make Wayne's last picture a great one!
The ... Read More
Rating: - Art imitating life
While giving Wayne credit as an enormously popular personality, I have never thought of him as much of an actor. He is always swaggering, wise-cracking John Wayne. Ironically, this film, in which duplicates his real life role of a dying cancer patient, Wayne shows his full depth as an actor.
The Old West, along with its most colorful characters, is irreversibly changing. In the same way that Wayne, riddled by cancer in real life, is changing. Wayne isn't the only one. Richard Boone, ... Read More
Rating: - The Shootist
I bought this dvd as a gift for a friend. I have seen this movie and it is excellent. It was shipped fast and was received in excellent shape.
Rating: - A Legend Passes
"I won't be wronged, I won't insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to others and require the same of them." Books credo and a fitting finale to a long and legendary career. Once there were giants. Wayne, Cagney, Cooper, Hepburn, Grant, Gable, Flynn, Bogart, all gone. We shall not see their like again. Wayne, undoubtably the most popular movie star of all time ( He was number one at the box office 21 times -- Gary Cooper did it 18 and Clint Eastwood 17), after a career of classic ... Read More
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