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The Shootist - JB Books | Repost from Grit: "It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing." The Duke's last film, The Shootist 🐎 Do you know how old... | By JOHN WAYNE.
The Shootist: Directed by Don Siegel. With John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart. A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
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.
John Bernard Books : Friend, there's nobody up there shooting back at you. It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't.
3 Οκτ 2024 · At the same time, he bonds with the woman's young son, Gillom (played by a young Ron Howard). As JB Books grows close to the Rogers family, he attracts unwanted attention from every up-and-coming gunfighter who wants to prove his salt as the man who killed the legendary shooter.
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son.
7 Ιουλ 2024 · In many ways, it is appropriate that one of John Wayne's greatest performances was in The Shootist. It follows a cowboy at the end of his life. More specifically, the 1976 Western tells the story of J.B. Books, an aging cowboy who has a reputation for violence, having committed over thirty killings.
