Title: John Wayne's Greatest Role
Product review: Red River was a great western; The Searchers was a great western; The Shootist surpasses them. On my personal list of all time greatest movies only The Unforgiven is a better film. Wayne is splendid as a dying man, an anachronism, which is a fair description of his personal life as well as the life of the character he plays, J.B. Books. In the film, as one suspects Wayne is telling us about his life, the hero is unapolgetic; proud and still capable, soaring above the petty concerns of his inferiors who do not understand him or his times. Harry Morgan has a memorable part as a sheriff of the new age dawning at the beginning of the 20th century. Morgan's characterization makes one long for more romantic times when humans were revered not for their conformity, but rather for their ability to ascend beyond mere humanity and into legend. RIP JB Books and John Wayne and thanks for the standards by which we can judge our modern world.
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