Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Year: 1963

Grade: A-

Country: USA

Director: Ford

Review

maybe the perfect western. it’s certainly not my favorite western, but in a lot of ways this one represents the potential of the western genre. it has the basic western themes of good vs. evil and lawlessness vs. progress and it plays with these in a unique way. it does some hero-building and hero-destroying, and reveals some of the artifice of these tall tales we love so much.