The Shootist
PG · 1976 ‧ Western/Action ‧ 1h 40m
J.B. Books (John Wayne, in his final film role) is an aging gunfighter diagnosed with cancer who comes to Nevada at the turn of the 20th century. Renting a room from widowed Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son Gillom (Ron Howard), Books is...
Release date: August 20, 1976 (USA)
Director: Don Siegel
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Adapted from: The Shootist
Box office: $13.4 million
Music by: Elmer Bernstein
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