“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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