Written by James M. Tate / 6/20/2022 / No comments / don siegel , exploitation , harry morgan , hugh o'brian , james stewart , john wayne , lauren bacall , richard boone , ron howard , seventies , western
DON SIEGEL DIRECTS JOHN WAYNE'S FINAL FILM 'THE SHOOTIST'
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| Title: THE SHOOTIST Stars: John Wayne, Hugh O'Brien Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 |
Don Siegel's THE SHOOTIST seems perfectly suited as John Wayne's final movie since it's about the final week of an infamous gunslinger dying of cancer (given the news by a doctor played by James Stewart); yet there was a string of slightly younger actors considered before a surprisingly healthy-looking Wayne took the now legendary role...
Where his acting is solid, true, even mellow despite the fact he's about to die while almost getting killed at the same time, contrasting with a horribly-miscast Ron Howard as the whiny son of Lauren Bacall, running a bed-and-breakfast where Wayne's holed-up, getting sporadic THIS IS YOUR LIFE drop-ins from various character-actors...
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| John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST |
And where Harry Morgan as a banal sheriff is more embarrassingly over-the-top than Ron Howard, as is a journalist seeking to write Wayne as J.B. Books' contrived autobiography followed by a gold-digging, melodramatic Sheree North: these visits annoying both Wayne and the audience...
Desperately needing more screen-time for villains Hugh O'Brien and Richard Boone, who The Duke has a saloon six-shooter battle with in a picture that Wayne accused Siegel of not filming in a wider scope, liken to John Ford Westerns, and he's not entirely wrong: THE SHOOTIST is solid entertainment but seems like a solidly entertaining TV-movie.
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| John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST |
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| Hugh O'Brian in THE SHOOTIST |
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| John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST |
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| James Stewart in THE SHOOTIST |
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| John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST with James Stewart |
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| John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST |
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| Richard Boone in THE SHOOTIST |
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| Hugh O'Brian in THE SHOOTIST |
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| Melody Thomas Scott (who was in Don Siegel's The Beguiled) from The Shootist |
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| Ron Howard in THE SHOOTIST |
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| John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST |
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| Hugh O'Brien in THE SHOOTIST |
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| James Stewart in THE SHOOTIST |
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| John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST |
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