The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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Ageing senator Stewart revisits the town where as a young mild-mannered lawyer he found fame by confronting mean gunslinger Marvin. Underrated on release, now rightly accepted as a classic western. Ford's most eloquent elegy for the Old West, the power of myth and the taming of wilderness - symbolised by the desert rose.

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Article - "The Duke: John Wayne at 100" by James Oliver
Thursday 21st June 2007

More than any other film star, John Wayne represented more than the characters he played. He embodied a sense of purpose, an expression of an attitude. Or, if you prefer, borderline fascism, because no other star has ever divided people like John Wayne. But what gets...  View article in full

Article - "Which James Stewart is YOUR James Stewart?" by Peter Wild
Friday 9th November 2007

Despite the almost iconic status of the Vertigo nightmare sequence (featuring a feverish, sweaty James Stewart disappearing within a swirling barber’s-shop-strip vortex of insanity and delirium), he is most often remembered, even now, as the clumsily handsome ...  View article in full

Article - "Anthony Mann & The Western Renaissance" by Peter Wild
Friday 15th February 2008

If you were asked to name the greatest ever western, it’s possible you might say The Searchers, John Ford’s complex and ambiguous deconstruction of everything John Wayne had accomplished up to that point. Perhaps you’d plumb for High Noon or The Man ...  View article in full

 

 

 

 

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Best Westerns

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