Edited sentence: EW Hostetler, and Scatman Crothers, John Carradine,Harry Morgan, Rich Lentz, Gregg Palmer, and Richard Boone are among the popular actors and actresses spanning several generations who teamed up in this film, one where the paths of the young lion Ron Howard and the actually dying old lion John Wayne unforgettably  crossed.Howard's performance resonates as a memorably moving portrayal of a gunslinger adulating young man who becomes an adult and turns away from violence after drawing down to terminate John Wayne's back shooting killer.In 1976, when Howard played the part of Gillom Rogers in "The Shootist", John Wayne's last, enigmatic and iconic Western, he was joined by an ensemble cast of All-American character actors and stars who were diverse, talented and  significant.Lauren Bacall, as Bond Rogers, Gillom's mother and the fast fading Wayne's reluctant landlady, Jimmy Stewart as Dr.Wayne turned in a nuanced,emblematic portrayal of the self-hastened death of a gunfighter stricken with cancer