You don't need to tell you that Johnon Wayne was one of The best actors in the western film Of all the time, but who was his best western film? There are many great career choice that lasted five decades, as with his regular and most famous collaborator Johnon Ford and other directors ("Rio Bravo", "real Grit", etc.). Two Ford Films often dominate the conversation: Wayne's Starvar turns into "Stagecoach" and his unusually dark odyssey in the "seekers". Both are brilliant shouts, but if you pay attention to the IMDB rank, the director and the Starweet went better with "the man who shot Liberty Walance".

Published in 1962, Johnon Ford's absorbent drama explores the conflict between the romantic myth of making the old West and the hard-to-make transition to the US border into democratic law and order. It may sound like a little intelligence if you expect classic shootings in the style of matters and horses action, but Ford and Wayne deliver these numbers. "Liberty Valance" is an adult West that is also a shooting part of the party, giving us the first encounter on the screen between Hollywood legends Wayne and Jamesesheims Stewart; Engaged LOVEUBAL triangle; A team of colorful accompanying characters; And Lee Marvin as a title, surely one of your dearest black hats that ever stick through the salon.

"The man who shot Liberty Valance" occupies an important place in the history of the Western film, serving as a curtain and crossing the torch. It was Ford's last film in the genre of Duke, providing Johnon Wayne one of his best rolesFord himself was approaching the end of his career as Western Director. After making probably more than any other director to chronic the American West, he was an influential author who also began to count on his legacy; Two years later, his last western, "tea autumn", will effectively serve as an apology for how he portrayed indigenous Americans in the past. Meanwhile, Liberty Valance has helped bridge the gap between early revisionists west of the 1950s and fiergle and violent likes of "Once, West Time, Sam Beijingpach". Let's take a closer look at what makes it so unforgettable and why Wayne's highest -ranked West of IMDB is.

"The man who shot Liberty Valance", which was not the very easiest movie to makeOpens with Senator Ransom Sodar (Jameses Stewart) returning to the cozy border town of Shinbon with his wife Hali (Vera Miles) to attend the funeral of a friend, Tom Doniphanon (Johnon Wayne). A local newspaper rapporteur has been sent to get the scoop of the connection between an important politician and the old cowboy. Unwilled, Sodar tells the whole story, blinking us 25 years earlier, when he was an idealistic young lawyer seeking an adventure in the Old West.

Arriving in the then unacceptable and lawless territory, Sodard's Stagecoach holds a bandit gang led by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). Sodard is robbed and beaten before finding a donor and taken to the city. There, he is the nurses from Halle and earns his guardian helping in the kitchen of a Koffus. He soon learns the state of the game in Shinbon: Valance and his two friends (played by Lee Van Cliff and Strater Martin) terrorizing locals because the lily-drawn Marshall Link Eplard (Andy Devin) is too scared to oppose them.

Sodard is determined to bring them to justice despite a Donifer's warning that the only way to solve things in those parts is to carry a six-shooter and ready to use them. However, Sodard hates violence and establishes its own legal practice. He also leads an hour to help Hali and the other illiterate city city receive primary education. He is a solid believer that learning is the basis of the law and order and is trying to gain statehood for the territory. However, local cattle rankers are like they are, as well as to be, and hire Valens and his gang to intimidate voters. This sets a calculation between the lawyer and the seasonal weapons - but the Doniphone still has a lot to say about the issue, even though there are romantic reasons to love Standard out of the picture.

Few Western showed the Old West's journey from lawlessness to democracy, as well as "the man who shot Liberty Valance", and Johnon Ford achieves an intriguing balance between border nostalgia and championship modernity. The casting of two huge stars like Wayne and Stewart certainly helps, with Wayne's unforgettable cowboy, which represents the macho old days and Stewart, an exalted, but thrilled for most of the film, which represents the way forward.

I generally try to avoid talking about politics when writing about movies, but it's almost impossible to discuss. "The man who shot at Liberty Walance"In any other way- indeed, it is described by Yorkujorer as "the biggest American political film". No matter how objective as I can, the film tells us this: democracy, law, education, equality and freedom of speech are good things and the only way for civilized society to progress. Beating people, individual greed, voter terrorizing and forcibly suppressing the free press are bad things.

Sodard represents good and freedom Valance represents bad ones, while Donif "hovering somewhere in the middle - he knows that Stoddard's crusade is best for the territory, but he still adheres to old ways of border individuality and justice. However, there are some wrinkles. In order to make progress for the city, Sodard must resort to violence with the pistol he despises and his eventual victory is branded by a reputation that more suits the Wild Wildlife gun. By the end, he scored a lot as a senator, but he is still remembered as the man who shot Liberty Walance. Old ways die hard and, as the newspaper man gloriously tells him: "When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend."

In contrast, Tom Doniphone's bow is a bitter way for Johnon Wayne to worship his last western with Ford. It is a two -sided cowboy that is not afraid to start shooting if needed. He would certainly be more comfortable to possess the legend of the murder of Valance, but he gives up that honor for the benefits of the city. He dies alone in anonymity, a sad end to a heroic figure.

"The man who was filming Liberty Valance" is a political film at city meetings, stump speaks and elections, but is also a western thriller with tense stands and uncertain calculation of the final. There are complex themes that take place throughout the whole period, and Johnon Ford presents those ideas without feeling like it hits you over their heads with them. This highlights Ford's elegance as a director; For his entire connection to the affected sites and action, he was in his best story about the story and characters, without drawing too much attention. IMDB voters may be right for this: "The man who shot Liberty Walance" stands there with many best West Wayon Wayne.