There are films that can mark the end of an era, but few do it so clearly as *The Shootist*, the 1976 western directed by Don Siegel. Made in a time when westerns, once the most popular Hollywood genre, were in terminal decline, it is best known as the final film in the long and distinguished filmography of John Wayne, the legendary actor who enjoys a reputation as an icon of the western genre. Scenes from the weste…More