Click here to copy URL

The Shootist

1976

Don Siegel

John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart ...

6.6

2,458

Western The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Don Siegel's terrific film is simply beautiful, and beautifully simple, in its quiet, elegant and sensitive telling of the last days of a dying gunfighter at the turn of the century"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip Horne Telegraph	"A fitting memorial to a great star – and leaves his image indelibly fixed on our imagination."	POS
United States	Newsweek	"Wayne's proud, quietly anguished performance, one of his very best and certainly his most moving, has a richness that seems born of self-knowledge"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The cast is excellent because it understands the material, and sympathizes with it: James Stewart, as the doctor, and Lauren Bacall, as the widow, play scenes with Wayne that absolutely make us forget we're watching a movie."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A brilliantly crafted work and a remarkably moving experience."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A subtle, touching valedictory tribute to both Wayne and the Western in general."	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"The Duke's last hurrah is one of the very best of a cycle of 70s movies that served as obituaries for the Western itself (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.