This is Wayne's finest moment on film, in my opinion. He plays an aging gunfighter dying of cancer whos only wish is to die in peace. Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Harry Morgan and Richard Boone all give great performances. Boone in particular as the bad guy who gets around town in a 1903 Curved Dash Oldsmobile complete with tiller steering. What the audience does know is that the car had not been marketed. Actually the American public never saw it until late summer of that year. The character Books wants to die on his birthday, January 22nd. Don't let the auto casting error keep you from seeing The Shootist. It's great!
Review of The Shootist
