The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance News

The good, the bad and the ugly of the western film genre has left its mark on a new exhibition... WALK down Edinburgh's Market Street after dusk next month and you might just have a face to face encounter with John Wayne.

"THE Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," John Ford 's great, autumnal western, dramatizes a moment of historical transition.

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John Wayne didn't receive formal accolades for his acting ability until his 1970 performance as Marshall Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn.

A warm, reliable and likable lead of features and TV beginning in the 1950s, Vera Miles got a prominent start but rarely seemed to get the roles her talent merited.

A warm, reliable and likable lead of features and TV beginning in the 1950s, Vera Miles got a prominent start but rarely seemed to get the roles her talent merited.

First President Obama retreated under Sarah Palin's "death panel" attack. The Great Communicator couldn't communicate how ludicrous the attack was.

Gene Robinson, the respected Washington Post columnist, got the blues the other day, so, to lift his spirits, he kicked Dick Cheney - " ripping into ole Cheney for being a torturer, the father of black-ops prisons and generally making him out to be the worst villain of the Third Millennium.

Is it really so terrible that women like the Jimmy Stewart character? The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of my favorite movies .

In my continuing Claremont Institute sponsored John Ford/John Wayne movie marathon here in Newport Beach, last night I watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance .

Now might be a good time to point to a new book on John Ford just out, called Print the Legend: Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the Films of John Ford .

Exactly three decades have passed since he died, but John Wayne continues to figure prominently in surveys that rank film actors.

Exactly three decades have passed since he died, but John Wayne continues to figure prominently in surveys that rank film actors.

By far the movie's gravest insult to posterity, however, is its treatment of the Texas Ranger captain, Frank Hamer, who may have been instrumental in bringing them down.

The Gilmer Main Street program will present three classic films free to the public on the downtown square this summer, announced Main Street Director Bridget Fowler.

Ten Deep 6.18.09: 50 Great Westerns - #11-#1! Posted by Lucas Huddleston on 06.18.2009 In his final column, 411's Lucas Huddleston reaches the end of his Great Westerns undertaking.

"Hello, my name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I'm Apache, and I am president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee.

Roger Ebert has another wonderful piece on his blog about the times he interviewed John Wayne.

A Movie A Week: THE QUIET MAN Sir! Sir! Herea s a good stick to beat the lovely lady! Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the next installment of A Movie A Week.

One of the best Westerns ever made, highlighted by the most complex and unsympathetic heroic role of John Wayne's career.