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Post by bravomailer on Aug 20, 2020 20:04:35 GMT
Ah, Liberty Valance. A flawed film mostly because Stewart was too old and the sentimentally Ford leaned on was going out of style. But this is gold: I dig that scene so much. "I said you Liberty. You pick it up." Lee Marvin makes a great villain as always. Pure unfiltered asshole bully. Strother Martin makes the perfect toady and Lee Van Cleef as that silent wild card. The whole scene is close to perfect. How did the Marshall live to be so old? He was eating 4 or 5 steaks a day and hadn't seen his feet in decades probably. Have to edit to add (big surprise) My Darling Clementine is wonderful too. My favorite version of the OK Corral incident. I do like Gunfight at with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster and Tombstone is fun but MDC is the benchmark. I like the Duke's line: "Liberty Valance is the toughest man south of the Picketwire.....after me."
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