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@Loejyrrab Another good western was THE COMANCHEROS. But THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE is now probably among the top ten. No wonder, since the man who made it made it most of the other nine. And won his four Oscars for Best Director for no westerns at all. Funny, isn't it?

Stanwyck is simply the single greatest film actress I have ever seen. Sorry, Ms. Streep. You are in the same league, but you still need to play a few more seasons.

@AtomicSushi92130 36 times. You're next. Just kidding.

@b286guy Haitink has been our greatest living conductor for over 40 years. But he didn't ski down Alpine slopes with model wives for photo ops like von Karajan (no knock whatsoever on von Karajan). It's taken a while for the music world to find out about it. It's taken a while for even Haitink...

Thank you for posting this. If there is one certainty in live, it is that Haitink conducts Bruckner like nobody else.

He was a genius, and Warner Brothers knew it. But they didn't know what to do with him. You might never have heard of Mitchum, Brando, Dean and Clift in the same way. You would have heard of all of them, but not in the same way.

Garfield would be 99 years old in March of this year. It's an o...

You got it. Will you forgive me for just saying, as Sammy Davis Jr. said when he did "Garfield in all of his movies?"

"Sure, sure, sure."

Warner Brothers didn't know what a genius they had.

It's beyond analysis. This is simply one of the funniest scenes from one of the greatest screwball comedies ever made. Anybody who doesn't get it deserves to die in a Gulag.

Glad to see Frederic March in there. And if it were exanded to 25, I would think Robert Mitchum also, hooded eyes and all.

Interesting how some were so easy, and some so hard to guess. The one I didn't even have to think hard about was John Garfield.

@TheLadyEveSidwich No knock on Martha Tilton, but Babs could have done this all by herself. Yes, the "powers that be," but Sam Goldwyn gets a break because his films were so good. Even if he should have just let Babs sing.

@Impowers Then buy it. Just like Gary Cooper tricked Walter Brennan. You'll be much happier owning the movie than simply telling people about it here as I do.

@theoriginalbadbob

Thank you. I have a sense that we may have had an Internet argument a few months ago that should have been no argument at all. James Wong Howe is interned forever right up the street from me, just a few rows from Marilyn Monroe. It seems fiitting. He was a consumate genius.

@penumbra155 As I heard it, too. Al Schmid apparently lived into the early 80's, and regained some sight in one of his eyes, and took up fishing (and was good at it) according to his daughter. John Garfield apparently lived with him and his wife for months learning to walk around without eyesig...

Great upload! I own the DVD but now I'm too lazy to get out of my chair and plug it in with such a high-quality posting to look at. And it's a very unique Christmas movie. Is there even another Christmas western?

@Rosannasfriend But she was Scarlett. Can you fiddelty-de-dee?

Remember the opening line from the book. "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful."

@714AD You challenge me. I think she was perfect in everything she acted in. Or close to it, since I suppose even she could be miscast sometimes or be disinterested. A rare event, though.

@Ysengrin00 Rubenstein performed this and recorded it many times. I suspect that if you heard them all (and even I haven't), your analysis might not change, but the balance would shift.

@brianCIM Even at that, my recollection is that he took some time off in the 1930's when he was nearly 50 for some technical "guidance." And he came out better than ever. But I heard him in concert more than once much later, and if he missed it, it was just tossed off into the waste basket. So...

@banjocracy Same way I do. We'll live beyond our earthly bounds. Bruckner knew that, and Haitink is his best 20th Century messenger to remind us.

@edwardjames50

You better believe it. And if you don't, she'll shoot you.

And then nurse your wound.

@Leling5

Watch it. It is not a short movie (about two hours 20 minutes), nor does it have a linear plot (that was made by the war in the Pacific). But it is a consumate masterpiece.

@yohannbiimu

Stuff it. And re-read what I posted. I didn't say that I wished that someone would murder anybody. It was within a movie context.

Let's make a deal. I'll ignore you, if you ignore me. Or even vice-versa. Then neither one of us will be "sad" for carrying on this dialogue.

@MrCwalkerify1

They never hated each other. They just could get mighty mad at each other. Brothers who've been in the same trenches do that sometimes.

@AnnaMayWongSociety

Correct. Reginald Denny, who had a pretty successful screen career himself.

@grabit1

That was "satirists."

@jtballnuts

Well, ya, dude.

Robert Ryan was one of our most brilliant actors. Not the only one. But he was boxing champ at Dartmouth. You can take it from there.

@oxytrebor

Give it a break. UTube is not the proper forum. There are others, where I might even agree with you. But not here.

@RushLimborg

And I know that you know he was no nerd. But why get shot unnecessarily?

Irene Dunne was wonderful. And nearly 40 before anyone really found out about it.

@Ceaaa22

Too bad he wasn't around long enough for it to sink in.

"Bick, you shoulda shot that feller a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill."

I probably said it earler already on this thread, but it is one of the greatest and most quotable lines in American Films.

@koln1996

She was even better after that. You obviously weren't paying attention. And I won't lower myself to explain it to you.

I wish I owned Sam Fuller's last cigar.