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Film · 1962 · Western
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Directed by John Ford
1962
★ 7.6 editorial score
Ford's last word on the myths he spent forty years building: it gave American English the phrase about printing the legend, and it is the bleakest western he made.
“John Ford and John Wayne together created much of the mythology of the Old West we carry in our minds...The film takes place at that turning point in the West when the rule of force gave way to the rule of law, and when literacy began to gain a foothold. It asks the question: Does a man need to carry a gun in order to disagree or state an opinion?”
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