John Wayne’s The Shootist

John Wayne’s last movie was an odd sort of western set at the end of the old west era. John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Lauren Bacall star as a group of washed up has beens, played aptly by a bunch of washed up has beens. Ron Howard, Richard Boone and Harry Morgan also make appearances. There is the standard train coming in at high noon with a group of bad men on it. There will be a bloody gun battle, as the days of John Wayne just grabbing his side when he is shot are gone and blood packs explode…

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