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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio
Terminally ill, john bernard brooks, the last of the legendarygunfighters, quietly returns to carson city to be treated by hisold friend Dr.hostetler. The troubled man seeks peace in aboarding house run by a widow and her son, but it's not his fateto die in peace and he become embroiled in one last valiant battle
Editor's Note
John Wayne, in his last film appearance, stars as famed gunfighter J.J. Brooks. After learning from Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart) that he's dying of stomach cancer and has no more than two months to live, he moves into a boarding house in Carson City run by Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son, Gillom (Ron Howard), to die quietly. But when word gets around that the old gunslinger is in town, curiosity seekers come out of the woodwork to get a look, and the ridiculous local marshal (Henry Morgan) contemplates a showdown with the legend. Annoyed by the attention and realizing that if he waits long enough, he'll die in great pain, Brooks decides to seek out his enemies and go down with guns blazing. Yet he works to persuade the hero-worshiping Gillom to foreswear the life of violence he's led. Director Don Siegel fashions a poignant, gracious farewell to the great star, who, like his character, was dying of cancer as the film was being shot. A stellar cast, which includes Western stalwarts such as Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian, John Carradine, and Johnny Crawford, adds much to the film's resonance. As much a meditation on the burden of celebrity as an elegy for the Old West, it's most revealing in its star's final renunciation of violence.
Plot Summary
A legendary gunman discovers he's dying of cancer. He wants to die in peace but is plagued by people wanting too much of his time and his memories. To escape them, he decides to speed his death along by challenging three of the most notorious men in the region to a shootout.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Widescreen - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital Mono - English | | Dolby Digital Mono - French | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Interviews:
| 1. Hugh O' Brian - Actor | | 2. Miles Swarthout - Writer | | 3. Bill Self - Producer | | Interactive Features:
| Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 4/11/2006 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1976 | | Catalog ID: 089044 | | UPC: 00097360890440 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"THE SHOOTIST features Wayne's last, and arguably most poignant, performance." 02/01/2004 p.68Entertainment Weekly
"[T]he film is almost eerily poignant." 06/01/2007 p.56 |
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