Eight Great Shoot Outs in the History of the Movie Western

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The Shootist (1976)-Going out on one last bang

The last Western John Wayne ever shot fittingly deals with the question of old age as his character, JB Books, deals with cancer.

On the last morning of his life, Books rides the trolley to a hotel where three outlaws are…