Film · Paramount · 1976
Pass it on
The Shootist
55Watch it awake.
An old gunman wants a quiet death, and the town will not allow it. The boy is watching.
The review
A doctor tells a famous gunfighter he has cancer. He takes a room with a widow and her son. He would like the last days to be a room and not a performance. The town has already decided he is a story.
He does not get to put the gun down all the way. That is the honest part. The boy is in the house the whole time, choosing which man to copy: the legend, or the man who was tired of it. Watch it for that choice. Do not let the last shootout be the only thing he remembers.
Journal
Keep The Shootist in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Republic are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Rio Bravo
66 instead of 55
Rio Bravo is still a western film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: Keeping a prisoner, deputizing, and waiting out a siege are the job, done plainly.
The eight
- 4Industry
The work he is known for is killing. He is late in trying to stop.
- 7Household
A widow lets him a room. Her son is deciding which man to become.
- 5Piety
He wants a death that is not a show. The town wants the show.
- 6Courage
He faces the end he was told is coming, and he still cannot leave the gun.
- 4Republic
The town treats a famous killer as an event.
- 5Temperance
He is trying to quit the habit. The last day will not let him.
- 7Truth
The doctor tells him the plain fact. The legend is the story the town prefers.
- 6Stewardship
What he can still leave the boy is a warning, if the boy is looking.
Where to watch
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