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Post by Kaz ~;~ on Sept 27, 2010 8:30:03 GMT -5
[/size][/url][/center] ------------------------ Director: Don Siegel
Writers: Glendon Swarthout (novel)
Miles Hood Swarthout (screenplay) ------------------------------ Plot Summary:: John Bernard Books, a gunfighter approaching his 58th birthday, finds that he has rectal cancer and two months to live. He takes a room with Bond Rogers and her son, Gillom, to wait until death comes. Of course, his very presence starts off events in the town. The Marshal comes, prepared to die in a shootout, Gillom tries to idolize him, Bond first is disgusted and then pities him. Then, realizing that he will die in great pain, he comes up with an idea to go out with a bang. ------------------------------ (Cast)
John Wayne ... J.B.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')
Scatman Crothers ... Moses Brown (liveryman)
Gregg Palmer ... Burly man
Alfred Dennis ... Barber
Dick Winslow ... Streetcar driver
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