peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2010 12 22 TheManWhoShotLibertyValance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Wed, Dec 22, 2010./noise/movies | Link

A 1962 B-movie starring John Wayne and James Stewart, or maybe it's an A-movie made by John Ford; it is rated #249 in IMDB's top-250 after all. I found the bit characters to be much better than the leads, e.g. the newspaper editor must have been a fine stage actor, and the Swedish family deserved more attention than they got. Wayne and Stewart are supposed to epitomise brawn and brains respectively, but all I heard was Gil Scott Heron's B Movie, twenty years too soon.