On the " Talking Pictures " podcast, Ron Howard, 72, spoke about the creation of the 1976 Western, The Shootist. He revealed ...

The iconic scene that famously ended John Wayne's movie career came close to happening 26 years prior toThe Shootist. After decades of great Western roles, John Wayne reunited with James Stewart for ...

Ron Howard had an interesting time making The Shootist, but still learned a lot. The Oscar-winning director, 72, joined Ben ...

John Wayne's final Western The Shootist could have ranked alongside Unforgiven had the star stuck to the original book. John Wayne fronted over 80 Westerns throughout his career and he was happily ...

The future Oscar winner learned as much from the off-camera drama as the filmmaking.

In 1976, battling the cancer that would kill him, John Wayne stepped in front of the camera for one final face-off. The result was 'The Shootist’, a rich and elegiac western and, says Philip Horne, a ...

It’s also the only Western to cast a fading icon as a gunfighter dying of the same disease that would later claim him. Fifty years ago today, on July 21, 1976, a legendary Western opened in theaters, ...

Wayne personally recommended hiring Bacall for The Shootist after they worked together on 1955’s Blood Alley. It tells the story of Capt. Tom Wilder (Wayne) after Chinese Communists capture his ship.

Ron Howard reflected on the uneasy atmosphere while filming The Shootist. He revealing why John Wayne’s final movie carried emotional weight behind the scenes.

The Shootist follows an older gunfighter named J.B. Books (Wayne) in 20th Century Nevada. He goes to see a local doctor, who gives him the bad news that he has cancer and not much longer to live.