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Writers:
Glendon Swarthout (novel)
Miles Hood Swarthout (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
20 August 1976 (USA) more
Tagline:
He's got to face a gunfight once more to live up to his legend once more. To win just one more time.
Plot:
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
John Wayne Rides Again…in a Direct-to-dvd Sci-Fi Western
(From Screen Rant. 11 July 2009, 7:16 AM, PDT)
John Wayne’s Unseen Final Film — A Sci-Fi Western — Will Finally Be Released
(From MTV Movies Blog. 9 July 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
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A ( Late ) Discovery more (111 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Wayne | ... | J.B.Books aka John Bernard Books |
 | Lauren Bacall | ... | Bond Rogers |
 | Ron Howard | ... | Gillom Rogers |
 | James Stewart | ... | Dr. E.W. Hostetler |
 | Richard Boone | ... | Mike Sweeney |
 | Hugh O'Brian | ... | Jack Pulford (faro dealer at Metropole Saloon) |
| Bill McKinney | ... | Jay Cobb (owner, Cob's Creamery) |
| Harry Morgan | ... | Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido |
| John Carradine | ... | Hezekiah Beckum (undertaker) |
| Sheree North | ... | Serepta (Books' ex-girlfriend) |
| Rick Lenz | ... | Dan Dobkins (reporter, 'Morning Appeal') (as Richard Lenz) |
| Scatman Crothers | ... | Moses Brown (liveryman) |
| Gregg Palmer | ... | Burly man |
| Alfred Dennis | ... | Barber |
| Dick Winslow | ... | Streetcar driver |
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100 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | West Germany:16 (f) | USA:TV-PG (cable rating) | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Norway:16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG
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John Wayne was great to the Carson City locals while he was staying at the Ormsby House Hotel during the filming. He signed autographs for young people readily, including one signed for future famed Nevada Opera lead mezzo soprano Mary Anna Replogle. more
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Continuity: After he discharges Dobkins setting a foot on his buttock, and Dobkins stretchs out on the ground, Books throws away his hat which falls on his feet. When Dobkins picks it up still lying, it is on his right side almost about his hip. more
Quotes:
Pulford confidante:
Pulford, J.B. Books is over at The Rogers' House. That was yesterday's news.
Jack Pulford:
That was yesterday's news.
Pulford confidante:
But I just heard he's dying
Jack Pulford:
Dying?
Pulford confidante:
Old Books is cashing in.
Jack Pulford:
That's hard news. He's the man I could've taken.
Gambler:
[Laughs] My ass.
Jack Pulford:
You have two ways of leaving this establishment, my friend. Immediately or dead.
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Referenced in "Howard Stern on Demand: Robert Duvall" (2006) more
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Willow, Tit Willow more
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I have always admired John Wayne, the man the actor, his politics, films and the rest. However I did not know about this film ! I discovered it on a DVD recently and bought it straight off. I was certainly not disappointed. Sound and vision had been restored and the picture quality was awesome, as though it had been made yesterday. The theme music was both haunting and catching ! But above all the ACTING in this film was really FIRST RATE ! One of his best performances but also an EXCELLENT performance from Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard.
Although I knew JW was taken off to heaven by cancer, I read that he actually was in its throes when the film was made. Whether this is true or just legendary, I don't know but it's pretty ironic all the same !! The film is sad, funny, tender, witty, beautiful all in one go. Some of the dialogues are just out of this world. I was so happy to have discovered it. It's less a typical western than a man's reflection upon the end of his life.
To me, John Wayne will always represent what true American values are all about, and this film, on all levels is the most fitting end to his career that anyone could have dreamed of.