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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I like John Wayne too . He just seems so American in so many ways . The Shootist was filmed in Carson City. The Shootist - Wikipedia. That was John Wayne's last movie. |
Agreed.
In many (most?) of John Wayne's movies he came across as somebody playing John Wayne playing a part in a movie. But The Shootist was was at odds with most of the characters he played. J.B. Books was different. He may have been rough, tough and nasty, but at the end he was as human as the rest of us, and John Wayne did a magnificent job, IMO, at portraying that.
A fitting end to a great career.