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1 Ιαν 2001 · The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day of Queen Victoria's demise, there to be told by a doctor friend that he must soon confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death himself.
The Shootist (1976) John Wayne as J.B. Books. Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : Now, I checked my bulletins before I come over and didn't find nothing I can hold you for, but I want you out of town - directly, today. John Bernard Books : Maybe I'm not so inclined.
John Bernard "J. B." Brooks is the central character in the 1976 film The Shootist. At the beginning of the film, he learns from a trusted friend, Dr. E. W. "Doc" Hostetler (played by James Stewart) that he has cancer.
Books has in the past killed thirty men in gunfights and has become a legend of the West, but this hard-won status has brought him unwelcome attention from would-be gunslingers hoping to gain their own place in history as `the man who shot J B Books'.
Throughout his life, sheriff-turned-gunfighter John Bernard "J.B." Books has committed thirty-plus killings. Now an older man, Books arrives in Carson City, Nevada, in late January 1901. He gets into a confrontation with dairyman Jay Cobb, but Cobb's assistant, Gillom Rogers, defuses the situation.
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.
An aging gunfighter, JB Books (John Wayne), rides into town. His deeds are infamous and, despite his age, he is still feared and, by some, revered. However, Books is dying of cancer and has about two months to live.
