The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Director, John Ford
“Nothing’s too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance!” says the train conductor, as the aged senator and his wife sit in their seats, returning to Washington from a visit out west. It is one of the bitterest ironies in all of American film. For the senator has built a whole political career on that reputation. Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin at his …
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