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Orange Free State

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12. The Shootist....

Reply to Mike Nelson (Reply #10)

Mon Dec 4, 2017, 08:35 AM

Dec 2017

...was a good movie about an old gunfighter looking for a place to die peacefully, and not finding it. Wayne threw us a curveball at the end off his film career, Ronnie Howard throws a wounded Wayne’s gun away, and Wayne nods yes and dies. He likely knew it would be his last film, and he seemed to be rejecting the gun culture he had helped to perpetuate.
His other really good movie was The Searchers, and he threw another curveball at the end which I will not spoil for those who have not seen it.

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