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Standing Up for Liberty Valance

by | Apr 2, 2009 | Western Movies

An exclusive analysis of John Ford’s next-to-last Western by Kevin Costner.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) is the last truly important movie in the career of director John Ford. As Liberty Valance begins, the period we see in the film is roughly the same time that Ford first began making Westerns, in the second decade of the 20th century. But the bulk of the story is a flashback that takes us to the 1870’s, whe


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