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16 de jun. de 2023 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance uses the star of most of those films, John Wayne, an actor who could certainly lay claim to being Hollywood's pre-eminent western star. It teamed him with James Stewart, an actor who had put aside his more genial image of the 1930s and '40s in a series of psychological westerns directed by Anthony Mann, beginning with Winchester '73 in 1950.
An ideal cast: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance rides into town as a classic entry in the Paramount Centennial Collection. Director Ford brings us to the lawless frontier village of Shinbone, a town plagued by a larger-than-life nemesis, Liberty Valance (Marvin).
24 de abr. de 2023 · Liberty Valance and his two henchmen have decided to take their revenge on the editor of the sole local newspaper in a frontier town in a western state. Thes...
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16 de may. de 2022 · Review: John Ford’s. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. on Paramount 4K UHD. One of John Ford’s greatest films gets a superlative Ultra HD release that’s only slightly marred by a few restoration shortcuts. John Ford regularly made such clear-eyed, unsentimental assessments of the Old West and the lies that forged its mythology that one ...
The reputation of this John Ford Western is undeservedly high: it's a heavy-spirited piece of nostalgia. John Wayne is in his flamboyant element, but James Stewart is too old for the role of an idealistic young Eastern lawyer who is robbed on the way West, goes to work in the town of Shinbone as a dishwasher, and learns about Western life.
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Full Bloom: Prickly Pear in John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” The tensions of the American West, and the Hollywood western, blossom with the iconic cactus. Patrick Holzapfel 27 Sep 2022
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance presents the Wild West as a flashback about a dead guy. This narrative framework is crucial to Ford's deconstruction of his own mythology (as Sergio Leone proclaimed, this is where Ford "learned pessimism"): the Western hero's fate was always already sealed because his history/fantasy was only ever a retroactive narrativization.
