The Man who Shot Liberty Valance

[musicalrich1]

I agree about this being Ford's best work! However, what about Howard Hawks & Henry Hathaway??... Must say, many today regard "The Searchers" as Ford's best - but not me, lol...

[52sunnyd]

liberty valance vs josey wales .now that would be someing to see.

[richardoky]

Funny they call John Wayne the bravest , but in the film her shot Valance from out of sight with a rifle. But still one of my favorite westerns.I just got finishing watching the new "True Grit" and I thought the ending ruined the entire movie.

[WytZox1]

I never understood why the Gene Pitney song wasn't used as the theme song for this movie. Hey! Even Shorty Kellums was in this movie. Wow!

[eddy1154]

i watched this movie in my film studies class a few weeks ago, i really liked it :D

[Cleon29Warrior]

@JuanMacready I don't think you know what you're talking about.

[SuperJazzi11]

"Out here a man settles his own problems"

[Pejake]

My favourite western without any doubt. I'd like to get the music of the trailer (the one from the beginning of the movie), is that possible?

[FoxPlant2006]

A great classic Western.

[ralphcraddock]

town marshall link appleyard steals the show

"what me?"and doctor let me see know hmmm.

old john ford must have had a few laughs making this.

it all sums up the world circa2010,in my opinion

you can see similar charactures in any town

its all there.and the storyline! the bw photography is outstanding

a flim ahead of its time.

[Spraycando]

More men, sorry More Men, should be likwe this nowadays.

[ProStuffz]

It's on TV right now :D

[monteleone1010]

I taped that film. Will watch it next Monday. In black and white? What the heck, it's a heeluva film!!!

[tbtbtwotwos]

liberty valance is the toughest man south of the picketwire, next to me.

that's just awesome. john wayne is the best!

[kenpugeda]

One of my favorite western movies. Top-notch director and actors. Never get tired watching it.

[1967mustanggta]

@JuanMacready How can you say that?  John Wayne is more experienced and just koung enough to whip anyone's ass in town here. And Stewart, we've all known someone like him or maybe we are him. We just don't get the legendary end to it all. How can you beat the ending scene on the train.

[JuanMacready]

@1967mustanggta Both characters were supposed to be about thirty at the most. They should have cast Paul Newman as Donophin with Steve McQueen as Stoddard.

[1967mustanggta]

@JuanMacready They are after the young hot gal - maybe you're right on the age thing but I'll always love the movie

[JuanMacready]

@1967mustanggta Everyone in the town was far too old - even the virginial 20-year-old girl was played by an actress in her mid-30s. Stewart was clearly far too old to be a young lawyer who had just graduated.

[timmy3986]

This was my 1st John Wayne film!!! It was AWESOME!!!!! :)

[hydrofal78]

♅♆♆♆♆♆♅ best film i 've seen so far

[cocacolero1000]

NO SE SI SERA EL MEJOR PERSONAJE DE MALO DE LOS WESTERN, PERO SI EL MEJOR BORRACHO DE CUALQUIER PELICULA ...

!! INFERNAL LO SUYO, MR. LEE MARVIN !!

[theoldgalah]

could you image modern actors doing a movie like this? They would need a box to stand on for starters.Everyone of the main actors was over 6 feet........

[JuanMacready]

Both Wayne and Stewart were way too old in this crap movie.

[timmy3986]

@JuanMacready I strongly dissagree.

[Chrispat8]

Lee Marvin was always the best villains

[LonerMedia]

one of my three favorite John Wayne films next to "The Searchers" and "Rio Bravo".

[larma7]

One of the greatest films ever made.

[19rosco46]

What a classic, John WAYNE, jimmy STEWART & Lee MARVIN!!! What a Movie!!!!!!!!!

[akear]

They don't make like that anymore for the simply fact they don't have the actors. Some of todays leading men are prettier then their leading ladies.

[Spraycando]

Tell you something. I love blokes who'll tell the truth - as it is - and John Wayne was one of them. In real life or film. You got to admire that.

[melollylolly]

FrankClanton--i'll be glad when you have a heart attack--maybe the funeral home corpses my grandniece says she saw you fuck-when she was visiting over in the uk- maybe those corpses will be finally safe without you molesting them...

[actonbath]

Did we know...

Jack Palace-got his tough scarred looks from bailing out of his flaming B24 Bomber in ww2 while on fire himself.

Struther Martin(the little mouthy Valance gangmember)- Excelled at diving and swimming and was a Navy instructor during ww2.

Pompey-based on negro soldier whom won the Medal Of Honor in the US Indian Wars.

[dahoss65]

@actonbath Jack Palance wasn't in this movie, but Lee Van Cleef was.

[kstroh2]

Great Line- NEXT TO ME !!!

[basserase]

I know he wasn't the star but Edmund O'Brien (Dutton Peabody) was a brilliant part of this great movie.

[lufc77]

Gangster SLAP 0.18!!

[Brian319]

This should be a highschool requirment watch movie and do a paper on this.

[TheNapalmDude]

Three great character actors (Wayne, Marvin and Stewart) all in one film. Gotta watch this.

[luigidesigns]

"This is the West Sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend!"

Great movie!!!

[FTWEVERYONE]

Greatness..on ALL levels! Lee Marvin

IS Liberty Valance,I CAN'T see ANYONE else Playing that character.

[Waszma]

@FTWEVERYONE Agree 100%. Marvin was the greatest. He had amazing screen presence. Check out "The Professionals"....dude.

[musicalrich1]

@Waszma - agree that Marvin was superb! In ..."Valance", "Cat Ballou," & "Monte Walsh," he is nothing but excellent!

[BearyHairy]

PeterFirthFan, can you stop spewing your ignorant filth that rolls out of your mouth for a little? The city crew needs to clean out the pipes, dear. Once this monumental chore is done, then you can continue to leak the usual level of verbal sewage that cascades out of your dim-witted mouth. Thanks, buddy.

[buffguy0]

I love John Wayne's cocky/tough attitude in this one....Long live The Duke...A legend in his own light!

[sylea12]

Long Life the Duke!

[inkenyo]

Well you're allowed to think so naturally.

[PeterFirthFan]

One of the worst movies ever made. Hilarious seeing men in their mid-50s playing young guys! Wayne and Stewart were badly miscast, they should have cast better actors like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.

[inkenyo]

Really? I loved it.

[MontyPython246]

John Ford is the best director of westerns, followed by Sam Peckinpah, John Huston and Sergio Leone. This film is his best work.

[Baskerville22]

It's a great film...but I rate his THE SEARCHERS much higher, and THE QUIET MAN is on a par, along with SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON.

Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo) and Anthony Mann were also great western directors.

[Pejake]

"Here a man solves his own problems"... !!! The Duke...

[blackngoldgal65]

They just don't make 'em like this anymore, Pilgrim.

[fjccommish]

@blackngoldgal65 I don't think they even made 'em like that back then. When God made John Wayne, Wayne took the mold and broke it over his knee, pilgrim. 

[Zigster38]

My fave western.

[MizziLea22]

I cant believe I have never seen this golden oldie, Wayne, Stewart and Marvin what great actors. Now I'm on a mission to track this movie down. I just wanted to hear Gene Pitney now I want to watch this movie. Thx for posting this.

[Pejake]

Where can I find this theme??? How is it called??? Thanks!

[muzikman74]

This is one great movie. I love how the intro starts with the future and then goes to the past.

One of the best John Wayne/Jimmy Stewart movies of all tiem!

[twoslices]

JOHN WAYNE...nobody could ever replace him.I loved that guy.

[mainebay]

Lee Marvin lived about 5 house down from me in Bearsville New York.

[gmimer]

Wayne, Stewart & Marvin in the same film. A classic movie.

[ilovetallwomen22]

funny classic movie!! one of the greatest ones ive ever seen in a long time!

[JessieDallton]

Contrary to popular belief, the world then, as now, was made up of more than young punks looking for a head banging. Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill EVERY time.

[pukka43]

lol people say they are to old but i dont see them out there acting.and been rich and fav like big john wayne and other in movieland.john done more in his live then any fool that sit on you tub and run them down.go get a life mate...they are great movie actor and history tells us that... r i p john...

[sallygal7]

John Wayne is incredible in this movie. The scenes after he loses Vera Miles, when he returns to his ranch and tries to burn it down. Just incredible. And what a script!

[snattler]

I see a couple of people criticizing the actors for being too old . I live in New Mexico and have known many an old cowboy that are pretty tough , and you had better not get on their bad side if you know what's good for you . They can surely hold their own .

[soydeespanya]

Damn right. There's a reason there old

[SCE2AUX]

Never mind that living out west in those days would probably age you pretty quickly

[michaelwright999]

It was a very hard life, you were old at 40.

[dobbo1959]

what a hell of a movie a classic second to none

[hossmitchell]

the duke is a macho man!!!

[gaba540901]

Wayne = catastrophe for western movies

[grabit1]

So what if they were too old? That's the point. "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

[VA24541]

There was more than one legend in this film: The Duke, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, and the greatest western director, John Ford. This was his last great film.

[cinemablaster]

Ford couldn't get a green light for this picture without John Wayne. The only part Wayne could play is the young rancher. Once you cast a 55 year old Duke in that part you can't surround him with 25 year olds... it would have made him look ridiculous. Hence you have guys like Stewart and Devine who also have to play young so as to match Wayne.

[ivanmullan3000]

The "lookon vera miles face.. after she realisess she married the wrong man! the admiral. singly handeded, stopped the Communist wtich hunts in holly wood"I,M JhON FOPD, I MAKE WESTERNS!! IN FACT HE WAS OSS CIA, eveything an american should be. and a funny,out of his one good eye..YOUR ITALIAN SINATRA? GO COOK ME SOME spagetti... as kathrine hepburn said.. he.. made a great friend, and a highly highly dangerous enemy.... god bless you Sean O freanagh

[iotbs5]

This movie certainly did have a good story line, complete with an ironical twist or two. I can't help but wonder how much more effective the whole thing might have been had the title song, written by Burt Bacharach and sung by the late/great Gene Pitney, been incorporated into the production.

[cptviolenc]

it is a strange movie, good story if you can believe that men pushing sixty play young men. wayne and stewart were too old.best part is the statehood convention scene. politics at its best, check out carradines speech.

[ephraimmorrison]

Not sure I get the point of the age crack..people who say John Wayne was too old remind me of the idiots who said Marilyn Monroe was 'fat'.

[skpknight]

Wayne,Stewart and John Ford;don't get no better than that.

[selket51]

this is one of my favourite movies...along with High Noon and Once Upon A Time In The West...all classics!