Lee Marvin played a sadistic SOB in this movie but in reality he was a very pleasant person. Woody Strode (Pompey) was a decathlete and football star and was one of the first Black American players in the NFL during the post WW2 era. Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor in Spartacus. Also served in the US Army Air Corp during WW2.
Lee Marvin is buried at Arlington. His headstone reads "Lee Marvin, PFC, U.S. Marine Corps, World War 2". Marvin served from 1942 to 1945, primarily with the 4th Marine Division, with I company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines. He was severely wounded in the Battle for Saipan in 1944 and evacuated to a hospital ship. Most of I company were casualties after Marvin's medical evacuation. Marvin was give a medical discharge early in 1945, after multiple surgeries to correct the severe wounds received at Saipan.
Another one of Marvin's more "sadistic" scenes is when he throws a pot-full of scalding hot coffee in the face of Gloria Grahame in "The Big Heat" (1953).
Yeah but who could miss Woody Strode as a native American warrior opposite Sean Connery as a cowboy in SHALAKO 1968 (based on the Louis L'Amour novel) and co-starring Brigette Bardot
Four other John Wayne movies which you might consider, are “3 Godfathers” 1948, “The Searchers” 1956, “True Grit” 1969, and “The Shootist” 1976. These are just something to think about, I know you’re busy! Thanks!
The 3 Godfathers, while a western, also doubles as an atypicalChristmas Movie. I also strongly recommend The Searchers, which includes some darker psychological themes.
The henchmen, "Ren and Stimpy," are two of the best character actors of all time. First you have perennial villain Lee Van Cleef, who would later become a leading man (see The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). Mia, you noticed Lee in High Noon too. Then there's Strother Martin. Check out Cool Hand Luke for Mr. Martin ("What we've got here is a failure to communicate.").
Another unforgettable movie. This channel is a joy, your research and commentary are always so interesting and makes your channel very informative too!
John Wayne and James Stewart also stared in Wayne''s last movie The Shootist. Both movies explores themes about the end of the Old West , the end of gun law, the start of book law. The Man Who shot Liberty Valance shows the start of the process The Shootist shows the process near it;s end.
Woody Strode (Pompey) was fiercely loyal to John Ford in real life and stayed by Ford's bedside during Ford's dying days. If you get the chance, you should watch Woody Strokes powerful performance in Ford's groundbreaking "Sergeant Rutlege" (1960).
1) Jimmy Stewart, despite his flaws, was a true genuine American hero. He had an established actor career going when World War 2 started. He gave up the acting to be a B-17 pilot. He flew 58 missions into Germany and anytime you went up in a B-17, there was a 50% chance that you weren't coming back. Jimmy stayed in the Air Force reserve after the war and eventually became a brigadier general before retiring. In the movie Strategic Air Command, you see him, for real, fly B-36 and B-47 bombers. No stunt pilot, it was Jimmy. 2) In the early 1960's, this was the first of two movies where John Wayne played a character named Donovan. The other was Donovan's Reef. It is Hawaii, as it used to be before it was wrecked by....greed. This movie is about racial harmony and respect and will make you cry.
Held the rank of Brigadier General too. I think that's why so many of these actors of that era were so damn good was all the real world experience they had to draw from. As mentioned, Lee Marvin was a Marine and was there at Iwo Jima. Lee Van Cleef, who plays one of Valance's henchmen, was also in WWII.
@@Carandini In The Longest Day, 30 of the cast were World War 2 vets and 3 of them were actual D-Day vets. So, yeah. Among present day actors, Harrison Ford is the only one I can think of who had an actual career (not just job) as a carpenter. Lucas dragged him into acting-he didn't really go voluntarily. Most of today's actors came from homes with money. They've always had money and they hate their daddies for being rich Republicans. For those who had jobs, they were just jobs, and damn few actually had careers.
@@beatmet2355 I don't know about B-52's, possibly, but I doubt it. There is video evidence of him in B-36's and a B-47. The History Guy (YT channel) corrected me, saying Jimmy flew B-24's in WW2. Towards the end of his Air Force career he was in charge of the bomber wing at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque New Mexico (there is an audio tape of him in the Albuquerque Museum ripping his bomber wing a new one). Anyway, Kirtland never had the B-52. Other bases in New Mexico did, but not Kirtland.
I don’t know if you recognized the man playing the marshall or not, but that was character actor Andy Devine who appeared in quite a few westerns especially ones with Wayne. Most people know him best though for voicing Friar Tuck in Disney’s Robin Hood.
Andy Devine had a long career in film and TV, and is recognizable by his unique voice. He hosted a very popular children's TV program called Andy's Gang from 1955-1960. Some of us of a certain generation recall him saying "Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy."
@@charlieeckert4321 No Pat Buttram was the Sheriff and Phil Harris was Little John. I know my Disney and Phil Harris was also Baloo in The Jungle Book and Thomas O’ Malley in The AristoCats. While Pat Buttram can be heard as Luke in The Reacuers, Napoleon in The AristoCats, Chief in Fox and the Hound, one of the bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Possum Park owner in Goofy Movie which was his last role and the film is dedicated to him. Outside of Disney people will also know Pat as Mr. Haney in the tv series Green Acres which had another Disney Alumi Eva Gabor who was Duchess in AristoCats, and Miss Bianca in both Rescuers films.
Fun fact! This film is actually the first film where John Wayne calls someone "Pilgrim" I think that's very interesting because that's the thing John Wayne is known for, but it didn't happen until late into his career.
I speculate this was because of Radar's imitation of Wayne on MASH and a few of John Byner's imitations on other late night shows. TV audiences were much bigger than movie audiences, especially during the 3 channel heyday of the 60s and 70s.
Hi, i named my cat 'Pilgrim' but i got it from John Wayne's movie ' McClintock' but you're right this movie is 62' McClintock came out in 63'. "You caused a lot of trouble in this town pilgrim and somebody oughta punch you in the mouth, but i won't, i won't, the hell i won't"...John Wayne✌
Mia: A little fun fact: Near the beginning of the film when Tom talks about the '...meanest man south of the Picketwire...' There IS a river in south-eastern Colorado that by way of local lack of education became known as the "Picketwire river". The original first people into that area of the country-- were the French. They named the river " Purgatory, but of course spelled is Purgatorie. In French, it would have been pronounced "Pur-gaa-twa". But the locals, many of whom couldn't read, highlighted in this movie, tried to pronounce French in a Western American illiterate slang, and it came out "Picketwire'-- a name the river STILL carries to this day.
This is a perfectly-cast movie. Everyone is so good. I especially think Edmond O'Brien turns in a great performance as the lovable newspaper editor Peabody. I first saw this movie in a theatre, and when John Wayne delivers that line, "YOU didn't kill Liberty Valance." There was a collective gasp that sounded throughout the audience in the theatre. It was great!
I'd throw in The Searchers, The Angel and the Badman, Fort Apache and True Grit (with a great cameo by the wonderful perennial supporting player Strother Martin.
Both are great, I completely agree, especially "Stagecoach", which is essential and is a total archetype. (it did not start the genre, though, westerns go back to the earliest days of movies, and some of the greatest westerns are in the silent era: "Hells Hinges", "The Covered Wagon" immediately come to mind. And there were lots of other westerns in the 30s before "Stagecoach").
@@TTM9691 I realize that there was a long history of western movies prior to Stagecoach. What I meant was that, in many ways, Stagecoach started the "modern" western style, as well as launching Wayne into stardom.
@@DavidB-2268 I actually figured you did, but I wanted to make sure that someone who may not know the history doesn't misunderstand what you were saying. It definitely launched Wayne into stardom, absolutely, and is a total archetype. Totally agree.
Concerning the development of the romance between Hallie and Ransom: since he was a man of integrity and high convictions, he couldn’t pursue Hallie because she was Tom’s girl in his mind. Tom saved his life so Ransom couldn’t steal his girl from him even though he was attracted to her. The romance couldn’t proceed until Hallie professed her love to him, which she did when she thought he was going to die.
There might be another dimension to this -- that she may not even have been drawn to Ransom like this until the instant that she (along with nearly everyone else) picked up the impression that Ransom had defeated Liberty. That would also make Doniphon's arc more tragic.
In regards to Vera Miles performance, which you seemed to like, chances are you might see her sooner than you think. She has an important role in John Ford’s the Searchers, and she costars in two Alfred Hitchcock films: the Wrong Man with Henry Fonda, and in Physco.
In addition to my original comments, another of my favorite westerns with Woody Strode in it is The Professionals from 1966. It has Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as a group of men hired to bring a woman back from Mexico. Very good movie. I highly recommend it. Thanks for the movie reaction. Looking forward to next week.
Tom Donaphon not only gave up his way of life as a Cattle Rancher,but he gave up the woman that he loved.Mia you are right that Donaphon made all this happened.
It's not a Western, but i would highly recommend "The Quiet Man' (1952), with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Their partnership on screen is legendary (they made 5 movies together), and they became lifelong friends.
New Jersey's Lee Van Cleef is a decorated (6x) Navy man -- he went on to become the "the bad," and as "angel eyes," in the Clint Eastwood classic "The Good, the Bad & The Ugly" & "For a Few Dollars More." He made four John Wayne films as well. Lee Marvin earned a Purple Heart along with several other military citations & is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He also made a film with Clint Eastwood ("Paint Your Wagon").
I hope you’re planning on doing the searchers this month. The American Film institute regards it as the greatest western and it’s also John Wayne’s best role
I'd counter that with 'The Shootist', but this is one of his best roles. Often times John Wayne is a presence rather than an actor, but sometimes you'd get a movie like this or 'Red River' where he displayed that he could indeed act.
It's interesting that you mentioned the sheriff's family being mixed race, since John Wayne's three wives were all from Mexico or South America and all seven of his children were mixed race. If you've seen Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood", you may remember Leonardo DiCaprio's character twice mentioning some advice about real estate that his friend Eddie O'Brien gave him. That's the actor playing Mr. Peabody the newspaper owner here, Edmund O'Brien. This is easily one of the best and most interesting reaction channels on TH-cam.
Edmund O’Brien was also in The Hunchback of Norte Dame (the Charles Laughton/ Maureen O’Hara version). Wayne, Marvin and that little girl in the schoolroom were in another John Ford Movie , Donovan’s Reef.
I wouldn’t call John Wayne’s children mixed race. It’s true, their mothers all came from Latin America, but they were obviously of Spanish descent, rather than being mestizas.
Pompey! Played by Woody Strode. The actor who really broke down the barrier for Black Actors! I know everyone always talks about Sidney Poitier as that actor... but I can assure you - No Woody Strode, then no Sidney Poitier. Woody is really the first STRONG Black actor, I know in this film, it might not seem so, but just his presence has a kind of gravitas no Male Black Actor had brought to screen before, in mainstream films. I love this guy and always raise his flag when I get the chance. Though his role is Spartacus was short. It was pivotal and profound.
Strode held your attention whenever he was on screen. When I was young I remembered him for three movies - this one, "Spartacus", and (don't laugh) "Tarzan's Three Challenges".
@@paintedjaguar That was Catman Strothers who was in The Shining... but Catman is also cool.Woody was also in the Sergio Leone's opus western "Once Upon A Time In The West".
Recently I finished watching all of the Bowery Boys movies and I was stunned by two prominent actors who showed up in bit parts in one of them, circa 1954: Woody Strode as an African bearer and Clint Walker as a kind of Tarzan character that shows up for the closing joke of the film.
@@Carandini One of Sean Connery's early screen appearances was as a secondary badman in "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959). Everyone has to start somewhere.
Possibly my favorite western, even though it feels a little set-bound. But what a cast! What a script! John Ford! Arguably his last truly great film. I suggest you re-watch the first ten minutes or so (well, the whole move, but my point is), because on a first viewing, you notice everyone is sad. Second time around, once you know the back-story, you'll be sad, too. I'm so glad I cam across your channel, keep up the excellent work.
I can't see all the comments and I'm quite late to this but when Liberty is planning cards before the shooting, he pulls what is known as the Dead Man's Hand.
That is the greatest line in movie history "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend " I consider this one of the best Western of all time, with John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jimmy Stewart....
After watching your reactions to Casablanca and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, I realized that the two films have something in common. In both films one of the protagonists does the right thing but loses the girl in the process. Rick gave up Ilsa to help Laszlo and the resistance movement. Doniphon saves Stoddard but loses Callie to him.
even more different 'different westerns' Destry Rides Again with James Stewart and Cat Balou with Henry Fonda's daughter, Jane and Lee Marvin in an Academy Award Best Actor dual role.
Favorite James Stewart westerns: Winchester '73 (1950); The Naked Spur (1953); Night Passage (1957); Broken Arrow (1950); Two Rode Together (1961); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) Other favorite James Stewart movies: No Highway in the Sky (1951); Shenandoah (1965); Strategic Air Command (1955) & probably my favorite: Harvey (1950)
Thanks for doing this movie. You may want to do "Shane" which has a somewhat similar plot. My favorite two changing of the west movies are "Big Jake" and "The Shootist" which both star Wayne. Tom's love of Hally was so deep he gave her what she wanted though it cost him everything. Four more airborne mosquito kills and you'll be an ace.
I think it's one Mia would really appreciate. I don't know if she's seen "Roman Holiday" either, could be her first look at Gregory Peck. Maybe Heston and Simmons too.
When Tom (John Wayne) came riding into town with Pompey and Rance, my mind flashed back to earlier John Wayne Western movies. It just had that "feel" and "look" of Westerns from the late 1930s/early 1940s. Andy Devine and Edmund O'Brien were the "sidebar" townsmen. Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef were the "sidebar" baddies. Lee Marvin was a sadistic monster -- the epitome of the lawlessness of The Old West. John Wayne's Tom Donovan brought a stand tall against injustice credibility to this film. Rance (James Stewart) was the perfect example of East meets West -- the embodiment of the pioneer spirit. The characters in this film are the stuff of cinematic legend! Thanks for reviewing this truly unique Western movie -- MY FAVORITE!
Lee Van Cleef played Reese, the quieter of Liberty Valance's henchmen. He was in a lot of movies, but is probably best known as Angel Eyes in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Floyd, Liberty Valance's other henchman, was played by Strother Martin. He's best known as The Captain in Cool Hand Luke. That's one I'd love to see you react to. John Wayne isn't one of my favorites. He had limited range, but he was really great in this movie. Thanks for another great reaction!
i love watching you react to these classic movies. no only do you understand what's going on with the plots but you actually know or did the background research on the actors, directors and screenwriters of movies you review. a lot of people who film reaction posts have no idea who the actors are or what's going on in the movie. you make watching reaction videos not only enjoyable but satisfying. i look forward to watching more of your vids.
Featuring a trio of classic leading Men and a rich story captured by a director at the peak of his craft The Man who shot Liberty valance is one of the finest westerns ever filmed, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) 94/100% Certified Approved ☑️ this is the West sir when the legend becomes fact print the legend.
Just got done watching this movie for the umpteenth time. I'm 59 and it makes me want to cry when I see all the great actors in this movie who were still living when I was growing up. But now they are all gone forever. And those kinds of people are gone forever too.
Please check out the song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by Gene Pitney and written by Burt Baccarach. It was supposed to be in the movie but didn't make it. It was a big hit and charted to #4. It would have been great in the movie.
I always admired Marvin's choice of how Liberty drops to his knees, gets up and does that two-step fall into the street. The director, John Ford, said, " Is that what you're going to do? " Marvin said yes. So Ford said, " Just remember to put the coins in your hat. "
Just out of interest, I used to be a type setter, and ended up teaching dozens of teenagers how to set a gallery - you're the first person I've EVER known to recognise that it used to be a laborious manual process, not quite an art form, but pretty close to make a good set. Despite that, I love DTP and word processing, makes life so much easier.... but you've still got to understand about fonts, structre and the aesthetics of print......
I think it was the middle sixties, early seventies when people were growing concerned over violence in movies, and with the death of the studio system they had to reinvent the western, much for its betterment so you have movies such as "Support Your Local Sheriff", "A Big Hand for a Little Lady"," Judge Roy Bean", and "once Upon A Time in the West: and the Imports. My personal favorite is "Welcome to Hard Times."
I really love your film reactions. I'm a mother of three, grandmother of two, and you are taking me way back when I watched these films in my childhood. Thank you so very much. You are incisive and your reactions are heartfelt. again, Thank you. feels like being with a friend who delights in these films as much as I have.
I just remembered a funny story about Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. She played his wife in The Glenn Miller Story, Will Stratton, and Strategic Air Command. Her real husband, Dick Powell introduced Jimmy Stewart as "My wife's husband." It got a lot of laughs.
What has to be remembered is that this movie is about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. When you think about it, think hard, you get a different frame of reference....and the movie really snaps into focus. This maybe my favorite western.
You need to see more John Ford's movies (western or not) and see what great director he was. My favourites are : "How green was my valley", "The sun shines bright", "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon", "the searchers", "The Last Hurrah", "The Horse Soldiers".
I love this movie, I worked with a guy we nicknamed "the man who shot Liberty Valance" because he was an older fella who had been at the job sometime, he was quiet but a lovely guy, would work his butt off and not want any credit, other people (workmates , foremen, managers) would get praise and promotions off his hard work and advice but he genuinely didn't want any credit. Great old fella his name is Alf and he's still around the neighborhood now at 88, he still pops in the works canteen for a coffee and a chat but he's obviously retired now. I love this movie and it always reminds me of Alf.
My favorite Western and arguably the film with the most depth of any in the genre. The era of the "West" is built on larger than life characters, feats, and sacrifices. Therefore, it is truly a fitting epilogue for this film to be a bookend of sorts from the man who helped mythologized this distinctly American genre, John Ford.
I just found your channel today and LOVE it. It's so refreshing to see someone who doesn't react to 80s teen stuff or the same old sci-fi and horror. If you are looking for recommendations, I'd suggest the films Randolph Scott made with Budd Boetticher, particularly Ride Lonesome and The Tall T.
John Ford & John Wayne in "The Searchers"..this one's a gem. "You right the law? "Let's see you enforce it",that was the lawless attitude in the 1880's Arizona territory.
Amazing reaction! 💯 I love to see younger people (I’m 25 but not many people my age appreciate old westerns or the genre in general) discover some of my favorite films. The western is my favorite genre!
I've just watched your reaction to this wonderful movie; I've seen it three or four times, but not recently, and had forgotten that Woody Strode was in it. It occurs to me that there are two other westerns in which he appeared that I think are among the best ever made, and which you might consider the next time you get around to westerns -- The Professionals (1966) which is my favorite western of all time except for High Noon, and which stars Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster among other great performers, and Sergeant Rutledge (1960), in which Woody Strode plays the title character (though not really the lead), and which is sort of a cross between a normal western and something like a typical Perry Mason episode. Both these pictures are great fun, and if you'd like to see John Wayne and Lee Marvin working together again, you might try Donovan's Reef (1963), which is a sort of half drama, half comedy, and quite entertaining. Thanks for listening.
If you like Jimmy Stewart recommend Harvey, Shanandoah, It's a Wonderful Life, the Glen Miller Story....if you like John Wayne recommend Big Jake, Mclintock, She Wore a Yellow 🎗, the Quiet Man, The Son's of Katie Elder
Great video reaction! I loved watching this. "Bend of the River" (1952) with Jimmy Stewart and "Night Passage" (1957) with Jimmy Stewart and Audie Murphy are two great westerns.
Lee Marvin was a Marine during WWII. He has acted in a lot of blockbuster films. You were right that this was part of the transition during this time in the West.
There are two westerns I really love! This movie and the absolute John Ford classic Stagecoach with fabulous stunt of his day that is famous. I love how the people gather in the restraint while en route. I remember traveling on bus and we would stop at little cafes in the middle of nowhere and have to sit with other people to make room in the 1960s. It is a different western too.
The marshal, played by Andy Devine, and his mixed race family are also a callback to Jon Wayne and John Ford's first big movie "Stagecoach" - in that movie, Devine is the stagecoach driver, and he keeps talking about getting home to his Mexican wife and kids. :)
2:59 I just finished reading "The Films of Marlon Brando." Tony Thomas 1971. Thomas wrote of "One-Eyed Jacks" directed by Brando,"...It took so long to make that the film ended up costing three times the original budget." Not a huge fan of Brando, but am a fan of film. What's fun about reading old books on film is that many movies panned when released are enjoyed today.
I know you had a lot of stuff to cover but I wanted to get your reaction to seeing John Wayne acting for the first time. It struck me another great idea..."Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955) directed by John Sturges, who also directed Magnificent Seven. The best film actor of them all was said to be Spencer Tracy, who stars in this. It has some really scary dudes - Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine. Tracy comes to a small town and undercover a secret a town gas been trying to hide.
This is one of my favorite movies, and my favorite western. I very much enjoyed your reaction to it. I think I have found a new channel to enjoy. Liked and subscribed.
Something I didn't grasp until the third time I saw that movie is that Rance and Holly will never get to go back home, and that Holly didn't really love Rance. She was swept off her feet by the romance of that moment and Donovan was too honorable to disillusion her. When she leaves the cactus rose, Rance finally sees that she would have been better off staying in her home town with her true love. He offers to at least take her home, and is immediately met by a reminder that if he goes back he'll have to be The Man Who every day, and then we cut to the long view of the train leaving with them on it. For all the humor, it's a very dark film. Donovan dies a miserable, impoverished, forgotten drunk; Holly is proud of Rance but yearns for Donovan and her home, and Rance has lived his whole life thinking of himself as a fraud who let someone "fight his battles for him" (a thought he couldn't bear in the restaurant scene) and now sees he failed Donovan and Holly too.
More cowboy Jimmy Stewart: check out 1939's smart, funny classic _Destry Rides Again_ with Marlene Dietrich. The comeback movie that revived her career prior to the war.
Woody Stroad and Lee Marvin were teamed together with Robert Ryan and Burt Lancaster in a great film portraying the early 1900s in "The Professionals". I heartily recommend it!
This was a beautiful reaction to a real good movie! I love the connections you made to "The Misfits" and the changes in 60s moviemaking, and in the 60s in general! Absolutely! And you know what's great? We JUST saw "The Misfits", so it's fresh in our head! Both are 1962! I've been doing this a lot in the last few years; I'll pick a year and do a bunch of movies from the same year, and you see all kinds of parallels. This was a perfect example! How cool! Mia, seeing you discover John Wayne AND Woody Strode was a beautiful thing to see! My favorite Woody Strode performance is in Kubrick's "Spartacus", he has this scene where he completely out-acts Kirk Douglas, there's no other way of putting it! lol. Anyways, watching this with you just now, I thought how great it was to see John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart in the same frame together. Very cool. PS: 32:36 You got that gnat! Good for you! Ok, two down, one to go: "The Magnificent Seven"! :D
Woody Strode deserves more appreciation. I'm glad you noticed him. He brought tremendous dignity and presence to every role he played, in an era when not all audiences were comfortable with a strong black man on screen. Before him, black people on screen were usually portrayed as rolling-eyed caricatures. Oh, and you should see him in "Spartacus", and "Sergeant Rutledge", the latter of which is another John Ford movie.
Mia, I'm surprised you didn't recognize Liberty's two henchmen - the tall skinny one was Lee Van Cleef ("Angel Eyes" in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), the short one was Strother Martin (Cool Hand Luke).
He WAS in his middle years of life. James Stewart spent the Second World War in the Army Air Corps (later the US Air Force) in COMBAT. He achieved the rank of Colonel in case you wondered. During hia military career he was awarded 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 4 Air Medals, 1 Army Commendation Medal, 1 Armed Forces Reserve Medal, 1 Presidential Medal of Freedom, AND 1 French Croix de Guerre with Palm.
Stoddard may have been the man responsible for getting them statehood, may have served as a senator and as ambassador to England, and might even be president someday - but for someone who had been there in the old days none of that was as impressive as standing up to the villain. "Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance."
I am glad Mia is past her grief when James Coburn was killed in the Magnificent Seven last week. I expected her either to be dressed in black or just give up on movie reviews all together.
I didn't even recognize Edmund O'Brien when I first saw this movie. He's usually clean cut and plays military officers. His performance was impeccable.
as I said yesterday, I'm blessed to have discovered your channel. the classic Western I've never beginnin-to-finish seen is The Man Who Shot... Just ordered the 4K edition for $10 a few days ago.
Another great view/review of a classic - love it! I do hope you will be watching McCabe and Mrs. Miller and for more Lee Marvin the film Cat Ballou. Carry On!!
I'm dating myself but in April 1962 I turned 7. For my birthday party we were going to play baseball in our back yard but it rainede really hard that day so my dad took me and the other boys to the theater to see this movie. One of the best ever. And a lot to say about newspapermen, which my dad was and which I was too.
Mia, I just wanted to mention since it never came up in your review or in the comments so far...John Qualen, portraying Peter Erickson, the owner of the restaurant where Hallie (and Ranse) worked, also portrayed the escaped convict Earl Williams in His Girl Friday...the man Hildy hid in the roll top desk. The supporting cast members always come back around.
The following year, 1963, John Wayne and Lee Marvin again costarred together in another John Ford film, "Donovan's Reef." It too was distributed by Paramount. John Wayne starred in over 160 feature films. He loved making movies. A Jimmy Stewart film that I love is the original version of "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965). I also love "Hatari" (1963), which featured John Wayne. I see that you've reacted to "Rio Bravo," so I'll watch that video next. Jimmy Stewart costarred in John Wayne's final film, "The Shootest," which also costarred Ron Howard (he had costarred on The Andy Griffith Show as a boy and Happy Days as a teenager). He later became an award winning Director.
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Lee Marvin played a sadistic SOB in this movie but in reality he was a very pleasant person. Woody Strode (Pompey) was a decathlete and football star and was one of the first Black American players in the NFL during the post WW2 era. Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor in Spartacus. Also served in the US Army Air Corp during WW2.
There were so many great actors and actresses during the Golden Age of cinema.
Lee Marvin is buried at Arlington. His headstone reads "Lee Marvin, PFC, U.S. Marine Corps, World War 2". Marvin served from 1942 to 1945, primarily with the 4th Marine Division, with I company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines. He was severely wounded in the Battle for Saipan in 1944 and evacuated to a hospital ship. Most of I company were casualties after Marvin's medical evacuation. Marvin was give a medical discharge early in 1945, after multiple surgeries to correct the severe wounds received at Saipan.
Another one of Marvin's more "sadistic" scenes is when he throws a pot-full of scalding hot coffee in the face of Gloria Grahame in "The Big Heat" (1953).
Strode was half Indian and half Black.
Yeah but who could miss Woody Strode as a native American warrior opposite Sean Connery as a cowboy in SHALAKO 1968 (based on the Louis L'Amour novel) and co-starring Brigette Bardot
Four other John Wayne movies which you might consider, are “3 Godfathers” 1948, “The Searchers” 1956, “True Grit” 1969, and “The Shootist” 1976. These are just something to think about, I know you’re busy! Thanks!
The 3 Godfathers, while a western, also doubles as an atypicalChristmas Movie.
I also strongly recommend The Searchers, which includes some darker psychological themes.
Please put The Searchers on your list. It's John Wayne's most complex role.
The Searchers should have earned him an Oscar. His best role, IMO.
Sergeant Rutledge starring Woody Strode.
Three Godfathers! Please!
The henchmen, "Ren and Stimpy," are two of the best character actors of all time. First you have perennial villain Lee Van Cleef, who would later become a leading man (see The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). Mia, you noticed Lee in High Noon too. Then there's Strother Martin. Check out Cool Hand Luke for Mr. Martin ("What we've got here is a failure to communicate.").
You should check out the Twilight Zone episode that Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef and Strother Martin did while they were making this movie.
And Peabody was Scarlet O'Hara's father in Gone With the Wind.
Another unforgettable movie. This channel is a joy, your research and commentary are always so interesting and makes your channel very informative too!
John Wayne and James Stewart also stared in Wayne''s last movie The Shootist. Both movies explores themes about the end of the Old West , the end of gun law, the start of book law. The Man Who shot Liberty Valance shows the start of the process The Shootist shows the process near it;s end.
Wayne having cancer while playing a gunman with cancer was inspired casting. And a great farewell to Wayne.
a very fine film!
Woody Strode (Pompey) was fiercely loyal to John Ford in real life and stayed by Ford's bedside during Ford's dying days. If you get the chance, you should watch Woody Strokes powerful performance in Ford's groundbreaking "Sergeant Rutlege" (1960).
I second the Sergeant Rutledge recommendation
I’ll third that recommendation. I saw it the other day. An absolute banger 🔥
Woody was also awesome in The Professionals with Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster.
1) Jimmy Stewart, despite his flaws, was a true genuine American hero. He had an established actor career going when World War 2 started. He gave up the acting to be a B-17 pilot. He flew 58 missions into Germany and anytime you went up in a B-17, there was a 50% chance that you weren't coming back. Jimmy stayed in the Air Force reserve after the war and eventually became a brigadier general before retiring. In the movie Strategic Air Command, you see him, for real, fly B-36 and B-47 bombers. No stunt pilot, it was Jimmy.
2) In the early 1960's, this was the first of two movies where John Wayne played a character named Donovan. The other was Donovan's Reef. It is Hawaii, as it used to be before it was wrecked by....greed. This movie is about racial harmony and respect and will make you cry.
Jimmy Stewart retired from military service at the rank of Brigadier General. I always respected that about him.
Held the rank of Brigadier General too. I think that's why so many of these actors of that era were so damn good was all the real world experience they had to draw from. As mentioned, Lee Marvin was a Marine and was there at Iwo Jima. Lee Van Cleef, who plays one of Valance's henchmen, was also in WWII.
@@Carandini In The Longest Day, 30 of the cast were World War 2 vets and 3 of them were actual D-Day vets. So, yeah.
Among present day actors, Harrison Ford is the only one I can think of who had an actual career (not just job) as a carpenter. Lucas dragged him into acting-he didn't really go voluntarily.
Most of today's actors came from homes with money. They've always had money and they hate their daddies for being rich Republicans. For those who had jobs, they were just jobs, and damn few actually had careers.
He was also a B52 pilot, correct?
@@beatmet2355 I don't know about B-52's, possibly, but I doubt it. There is video evidence of him in B-36's and a B-47. The History Guy (YT channel) corrected me, saying Jimmy flew B-24's in WW2. Towards the end of his Air Force career he was in charge of the bomber wing at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque New Mexico (there is an audio tape of him in the Albuquerque Museum ripping his bomber wing a new one). Anyway, Kirtland never had the B-52. Other bases in New Mexico did, but not Kirtland.
I don’t know if you recognized the man playing the marshall or not, but that was character actor Andy Devine who appeared in quite a few westerns especially ones with Wayne. Most people know him best though for voicing Friar Tuck in Disney’s Robin Hood.
Andy Devine had a long career in film and TV, and is recognizable by his unique voice. He hosted a very popular children's TV program called Andy's Gang from 1955-1960. Some of us of a certain generation recall him saying "Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy."
Andy Devine was the Sherriff of Nottingham. Phil silvers was Little John.
@@charlieeckert4321 No Pat Buttram was the Sheriff and Phil Harris was Little John. I know my Disney and Phil Harris was also Baloo in The Jungle Book and Thomas O’ Malley in The AristoCats.
While Pat Buttram can be heard as Luke in The Reacuers, Napoleon in The AristoCats, Chief in Fox and the Hound, one of the bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Possum Park owner in Goofy Movie which was his last role and the film is dedicated to him. Outside of Disney people will also know Pat as Mr. Haney in the tv series Green Acres which had another Disney Alumi Eva Gabor who was Duchess in AristoCats, and Miss Bianca in both Rescuers films.
AD drove in STAGECOACH.
@@romanclay1913 I know I saw the film in one of my two film classes in college.
Fun fact! This film is actually the first film where John Wayne calls someone "Pilgrim"
I think that's very interesting because that's the thing John Wayne is known for, but it didn't happen until late into his career.
I speculate this was because of Radar's imitation of Wayne on MASH and a few of John Byner's imitations on other late night shows. TV audiences were much bigger than movie audiences, especially during the 3 channel heyday of the 60s and 70s.
Hi, i named my cat 'Pilgrim' but i got it from John Wayne's movie ' McClintock' but you're right this movie is 62' McClintock came out in 63'. "You caused a lot of trouble in this town pilgrim and somebody oughta punch you in the mouth, but i won't, i won't, the hell i won't"...John Wayne✌
Mia: A little fun fact: Near the beginning of the film when Tom talks about the '...meanest man south of the Picketwire...' There IS a river in south-eastern Colorado that by way of local lack of education became known as the "Picketwire river". The original first people into that area of the country-- were the French. They named the river " Purgatory, but of course spelled is Purgatorie. In French, it would have been pronounced "Pur-gaa-twa". But the locals, many of whom couldn't read, highlighted in this movie, tried to pronounce French in a Western American illiterate slang, and it came out "Picketwire'-- a name the river STILL carries to this day.
That is just awesome, thanks for sharing that piece of local linguistic history!
No. They spelled it Purgatoire and pronounced it Purgatwa. Is from the Latin Purgatorium. Read Dante's Inferno
This is a perfectly-cast movie. Everyone is so good. I especially think Edmond O'Brien turns in a great performance as the lovable newspaper editor Peabody. I first saw this movie in a theatre, and when John Wayne delivers that line, "YOU didn't kill Liberty Valance." There was a collective gasp that sounded throughout the audience in the theatre. It was great!
Two must-see John Wayne westerns: Stagecoach, which pretty much started the genre, and Rio Bravo, which co-stars Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin.
I'd throw in The Searchers, The Angel and the Badman, Fort Apache and True Grit (with a great cameo by the wonderful perennial supporting player Strother Martin.
Both are great, I completely agree, especially "Stagecoach", which is essential and is a total archetype. (it did not start the genre, though, westerns go back to the earliest days of movies, and some of the greatest westerns are in the silent era: "Hells Hinges", "The Covered Wagon" immediately come to mind. And there were lots of other westerns in the 30s before "Stagecoach").
@@TTM9691 I realize that there was a long history of western movies prior to Stagecoach. What I meant was that, in many ways, Stagecoach started the "modern" western style, as well as launching Wayne into stardom.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache, Hondo, The Shootist - so many great Wayne Films.
@@DavidB-2268 I actually figured you did, but I wanted to make sure that someone who may not know the history doesn't misunderstand what you were saying. It definitely launched Wayne into stardom, absolutely, and is a total archetype. Totally agree.
Concerning the development of the romance between Hallie and Ransom: since he was a man of integrity and high convictions, he couldn’t pursue Hallie because she was Tom’s girl in his mind. Tom saved his life so Ransom couldn’t steal his girl from him even though he was attracted to her. The romance couldn’t proceed until Hallie professed her love to him, which she did when she thought he was going to die.
There might be another dimension to this -- that she may not even have been drawn to Ransom like this until the instant that she (along with nearly everyone else) picked up the impression that Ransom had defeated Liberty. That would also make Doniphon's arc more tragic.
In regards to Vera Miles performance, which you seemed to like, chances are you might see her sooner than you think. She has an important role in John Ford’s the Searchers, and she costars in two Alfred Hitchcock films: the Wrong Man with Henry Fonda, and in Physco.
In addition to my original comments, another of my favorite westerns with Woody Strode in it is The Professionals from 1966. It has Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as a group of men hired to bring a woman back from Mexico. Very good movie. I highly recommend it. Thanks for the movie reaction. Looking forward to next week.
Finally watched Sargent Rutledge few years ago.
Great job! This is, in my opinion, the greatest western ever made.
Tom Donaphon not only gave up his way of life as a Cattle Rancher,but he gave up the woman that he loved.Mia you are right that Donaphon made all this happened.
It's not a Western, but i would highly recommend "The Quiet Man' (1952), with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Their partnership on screen is legendary (they made 5 movies together), and they became lifelong friends.
New Jersey's Lee Van Cleef is a decorated (6x) Navy man -- he went on to become the "the bad," and as "angel eyes," in the Clint Eastwood classic "The Good, the Bad & The Ugly" & "For a Few Dollars More."
He made four John Wayne films as well.
Lee Marvin earned a Purple Heart along with several other military citations & is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He also made a film with Clint Eastwood ("Paint Your Wagon").
I hope you’re planning on doing the searchers this month. The American Film institute regards it as the greatest western and it’s also John Wayne’s best role
I'd counter that with 'The Shootist', but this is one of his best roles. Often times John Wayne is a presence rather than an actor, but sometimes you'd get a movie like this or 'Red River' where he displayed that he could indeed act.
Oh yes PLEASE!
I didn't appreciate "The Shootist" until I grew up. The Searchers is my wife's favorite. In my top ten for sure.
Hi dragon66, unfortunately we will not be watching The Searchers this month, but we will definitely be watching it on the channel in the future!!
Personally my favourite movie by John Wayne was The Quiet Man
It's interesting that you mentioned the sheriff's family being mixed race, since John Wayne's three wives were all from Mexico or South America and all seven of his children were mixed race.
If you've seen Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood", you may remember Leonardo DiCaprio's character twice mentioning some advice about real estate that his friend Eddie O'Brien gave him. That's the actor playing Mr. Peabody the newspaper owner here, Edmund O'Brien.
This is easily one of the best and most interesting reaction channels on TH-cam.
Edmund O’Brien was also in The Hunchback of Norte Dame (the Charles Laughton/ Maureen O’Hara version).
Wayne, Marvin and that little girl in the schoolroom were in another John Ford Movie , Donovan’s Reef.
Porfie Popnecker:. John Wayne did not like women from the USA. He thought that they all were feminist. He wanted a woman who knew her place.
I wouldn’t call John Wayne’s children mixed race. It’s true, their mothers all came from Latin America, but they were obviously of Spanish descent, rather than being mestizas.
@@kcirtapelyk6060 Obviously. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@beaujac311 Wow! Even back then, American women had a reputation for being harpies.
Pompey! Played by Woody Strode. The actor who really broke down the barrier for Black Actors! I know everyone always talks about Sidney Poitier as that actor... but I can assure you - No Woody Strode, then no Sidney Poitier. Woody is really the first STRONG Black actor, I know in this film, it might not seem so, but just his presence has a kind of gravitas no Male Black Actor had brought to screen before, in mainstream films. I love this guy and always raise his flag when I get the chance. Though his role is Spartacus was short. It was pivotal and profound.
Strode held your attention whenever he was on screen. When I was young I remembered him for three movies - this one, "Spartacus", and (don't laugh) "Tarzan's Three Challenges".
@@paintedjaguar That was Catman Strothers who was in The Shining... but Catman is also cool.Woody was also in the Sergio Leone's opus western "Once Upon A Time In The West".
@@totallytomanimation Scatman Crothers. Yeah, you're right. For some reason I get them confused sometimes.
Recently I finished watching all of the Bowery Boys movies and I was stunned by two prominent actors who showed up in bit parts in one of them, circa 1954: Woody Strode as an African bearer and Clint Walker as a kind of Tarzan character that shows up for the closing joke of the film.
@@Carandini One of Sean Connery's early screen appearances was as a secondary badman in "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959). Everyone has to start somewhere.
You might want to watch the movie "Stagecoach" . It was Wayne's first big movie and launched him from really bad B westerns to major motion pictures.
Possibly my favorite western, even though it feels a little set-bound. But what a cast! What a script! John Ford! Arguably his last truly great film.
I suggest you re-watch the first ten minutes or so (well, the whole move, but my point is), because on a first viewing, you notice everyone is sad. Second time around, once you know the back-story, you'll be sad, too.
I'm so glad I cam across your channel, keep up the excellent work.
I'm in love! Finally found a reactor that watches the older films I love so much! Thank you!
I can't see all the comments and I'm quite late to this but when Liberty is planning cards before the shooting, he pulls what is known as the Dead Man's Hand.
Gene Pitney had a hit song ("The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance") that made it into the top 50 in the charts...great song...
“The Big Country” starring Gregory Peck is a MUST!!!!!!
That is the greatest line in movie history "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend " I consider this one of the best Western of all time, with John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jimmy Stewart....
After watching your reactions to Casablanca and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, I realized that the two films have something in common. In both films one of the protagonists does the right thing but loses the girl in the process. Rick gave up Ilsa to help Laszlo and the resistance movement. Doniphon saves Stoddard but loses Callie to him.
even more different 'different westerns' Destry Rides Again with James Stewart and Cat Balou with Henry Fonda's daughter, Jane and Lee Marvin in an Academy Award Best Actor dual role.
Favorite James Stewart westerns: Winchester '73 (1950); The Naked Spur (1953); Night Passage (1957); Broken Arrow (1950); Two Rode Together (1961); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Other favorite James Stewart movies: No Highway in the Sky (1951); Shenandoah (1965); Strategic Air Command (1955) & probably my favorite: Harvey (1950)
Thanks for doing this movie. You may want to do "Shane" which has a somewhat similar plot. My favorite two changing of the west movies are "Big Jake" and "The Shootist" which both star Wayne.
Tom's love of Hally was so deep he gave her what she wanted though it cost him everything.
Four more airborne mosquito kills and you'll be an ace.
Shane and The Naked Spur are must see "revisionist" Westerns.
I think SHANE is not only the best western ever, but also one of the finest movies of any kind ever made.
@@porflepopnecker4376 damn good movie, with one of the truly scary bad guys in movie history!
@@etherealtb6021 Like a saddlebag with eyes.
But you can understand where his boss is coming from.
@@etherealtb6021 Who'd they name you after? Or don't you know.
Laughing and rolling my eyes every time you say "James Stewart" lol But nice reaction, this is a favorite.
Mia your passion intelligence and insight and love for movies make you one of the best reactors thank you so much
"I'll get it, Liberty!" My dad quotes that all the time! 😂
Such a great movie! And Stewart's character is my namesake, so I feel extra special about it. Glad you did this one!
Another Western with very interesting themes that sort of "tears down" the traditional Western film is THE BIG COUNTRY (1958), also an amazing film.
Great film. Great suggestion. I really hope Mia gives it a shot.
I think it's one Mia would really appreciate. I don't know if she's seen "Roman Holiday" either, could be her first look at Gregory Peck. Maybe Heston and Simmons too.
The music in The Big Country will make your hair stand on end.
@Randy White The score probably influenced a young Ennio Morricone.
I'm so glad you appreciated this film as much as I did, Mia. Not your typical shoot-em-up cowboy film.
When Tom (John Wayne) came riding into town with Pompey and Rance, my mind flashed back to earlier John Wayne Western movies. It just had that "feel" and "look" of Westerns from the late 1930s/early 1940s. Andy Devine and Edmund O'Brien were the "sidebar" townsmen. Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef were the "sidebar" baddies. Lee Marvin was a sadistic monster -- the epitome of the lawlessness of The Old West. John Wayne's Tom Donovan brought a stand tall against injustice credibility to this film. Rance (James Stewart) was the perfect example of East meets West -- the embodiment of the pioneer spirit. The characters in this film are the stuff of cinematic legend! Thanks for reviewing this truly unique Western movie -- MY FAVORITE!
Lee Van Cleef played Reese, the quieter of Liberty Valance's henchmen. He was in a lot of movies, but is probably best known as Angel Eyes in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Floyd, Liberty Valance's other henchman, was played by Strother Martin. He's best known as The Captain in Cool Hand Luke. That's one I'd love to see you react to.
John Wayne isn't one of my favorites. He had limited range, but he was really great in this movie.
Thanks for another great reaction!
Van Cleef was a stellar character actor. Think he may have been at his best in For A Few Dollars More, but he was fabulous as Angel Eyes too.
i love watching you react to these classic movies. no only do you understand what's going on with the plots but you actually know or did the background research on the actors, directors and screenwriters of movies you review. a lot of people who film reaction posts have no idea who the actors are or what's going on in the movie. you make watching reaction videos not only enjoyable but satisfying. i look forward to watching more of your vids.
Featuring a trio of classic leading Men and a rich story captured by a director at the peak of his craft The Man who shot Liberty valance is one of the finest westerns ever filmed, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) 94/100% Certified Approved ☑️ this is the West sir when the legend becomes fact print the legend.
Just got done watching this movie for the umpteenth time. I'm 59 and it makes me want to cry when I see all the great actors in this movie who were still living when I was growing up. But now they are all gone forever. And those kinds of people are gone forever too.
Please check out the song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by Gene Pitney and written by Burt Baccarach. It was supposed to be in the movie but didn't make it. It was a big hit and charted to #4. It would have been great in the movie.
I always admired Marvin's choice of how Liberty drops to his knees, gets up and does that two-step fall into the street. The director, John Ford, said, " Is that what you're going to do? " Marvin said yes. So Ford said, " Just remember to put the coins in your hat. "
Just out of interest, I used to be a type setter, and ended up teaching dozens of teenagers how to set a gallery - you're the first person I've EVER known to recognise that it used to be a laborious manual process, not quite an art form, but pretty close to make a good set. Despite that, I love DTP and word processing, makes life so much easier.... but you've still got to understand about fonts, structre and the aesthetics of print......
I appreciate your commentary being real and objective.
I think it was the middle sixties, early seventies when people were growing concerned over violence in movies, and with the death of the studio system they had to reinvent the western, much for its betterment so you have movies such as "Support Your Local Sheriff", "A Big Hand for a Little Lady"," Judge Roy Bean", and "once Upon A Time in the West: and the Imports. My personal favorite is "Welcome to Hard Times."
"A Big Hand For The Little Lady" (1966) is another of those really fun movies that has gotten lost in the shuffle. Notable cast too.
I really love your film reactions. I'm a mother of three, grandmother of two, and you are taking me way back when I watched these films in my childhood. Thank you so very much. You are incisive and your reactions are heartfelt. again, Thank you. feels like being with a friend who delights in these films as much as I have.
I just remembered a funny story about Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. She played his wife in The Glenn Miller Story, Will Stratton, and Strategic Air Command. Her real husband, Dick Powell introduced Jimmy Stewart as "My wife's husband." It got a lot of laughs.
What has to be remembered is that this movie is about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. When you think about it, think hard, you get a different frame of reference....and the movie really snaps into focus. This maybe my favorite western.
You need to see more John Ford's movies (western or not) and see what great director he was. My favourites are : "How green was my valley", "The sun shines bright", "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon", "the searchers", "The Last Hurrah", "The Horse Soldiers".
I love this movie, I worked with a guy we nicknamed "the man who shot Liberty Valance" because he was an older fella who had been at the job sometime, he was quiet but a lovely guy, would work his butt off and not want any credit, other people (workmates , foremen, managers) would get praise and promotions off his hard work and advice but he genuinely didn't want any credit. Great old fella his name is Alf and he's still around the neighborhood now at 88, he still pops in the works canteen for a coffee and a chat but he's obviously retired now. I love this movie and it always reminds me of Alf.
Top tier reaction. Loved that you did your research beforehand which allowed me to learn some things along with you! Instant subscribe.
This happened to show up on my recommended list and had to see if you liked it as much as me. One of my favorites of all time.
Also, the original “3:10 To Yuma” (1957) starring Glenn Ford is amazing, all the feels!
My favorite Western and arguably the film with the most depth of any in the genre. The era of the "West" is built on larger than life characters, feats, and sacrifices. Therefore, it is truly a fitting epilogue for this film to be a bookend of sorts from the man who helped mythologized this distinctly American genre, John Ford.
I just found your channel today and LOVE it. It's so refreshing to see someone who doesn't react to 80s teen stuff or the same old sci-fi and horror. If you are looking for recommendations, I'd suggest the films Randolph Scott made with Budd Boetticher, particularly Ride Lonesome and The Tall T.
Also, as you like Woody Strode as Pompey, you need to watch John Ford's film Sgt Rutledge :)
You got a thumbs up and a sub. I love how you reacted to this video it was very insightful and well articulated. More westerns please!
Great analysis ! Was a joy to follow
John Ford & John Wayne in "The Searchers"..this one's a gem.
"You right the law? "Let's see you enforce it",that was the lawless attitude in the 1880's Arizona territory.
Amazing reaction! 💯 I love to see younger people (I’m 25 but not many people my age appreciate old westerns or the genre in general) discover some of my favorite films. The western is my favorite genre!
I've just watched your reaction to this wonderful movie; I've seen it three or four times, but not recently, and had forgotten that Woody Strode was in it. It occurs to me that there are two other westerns in which he appeared that I think are among the best ever made, and which you might consider the next time you get around to westerns -- The Professionals (1966) which is my favorite western of all time except for High Noon, and which stars Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster among other great performers, and Sergeant Rutledge (1960), in which Woody Strode plays the title character (though not really the lead), and which is sort of a cross between a normal western and something like a typical Perry Mason episode. Both these pictures are great fun, and if you'd like to see John Wayne and Lee Marvin working together again, you might try Donovan's Reef (1963), which is a sort of half drama, half comedy, and quite entertaining. Thanks for listening.
If you like Jimmy Stewart recommend Harvey, Shanandoah, It's a Wonderful Life, the Glen Miller Story....if you like John Wayne recommend Big Jake, Mclintock, She Wore a Yellow 🎗, the Quiet Man, The Son's of Katie Elder
Great list - I would add Rear Window to that list : )
John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin. Unbeatable cast.
Great video reaction! I loved watching this. "Bend of the River" (1952) with Jimmy Stewart and "Night Passage" (1957) with Jimmy Stewart and Audie Murphy are two great westerns.
Lee Marvin was a Marine during WWII. He has acted in a lot of blockbuster films. You were right that this was part of the transition during this time in the West.
I think Woody Strode's best acting was in Kirk Douglas' "Spartacus", as the gladiator slave who has to fight Douglas in the gladiator school arena.
There are two westerns I really love! This movie and the absolute John Ford classic Stagecoach with fabulous stunt of his day that is famous. I love how the people gather in the restraint while en route. I remember traveling on bus and we would stop at little cafes in the middle of nowhere and have to sit with other people to make room in the 1960s. It is a different western too.
The marshal, played by Andy Devine, and his mixed race family are also a callback to Jon Wayne and John Ford's first big movie "Stagecoach" - in that movie, Devine is the stagecoach driver, and he keeps talking about getting home to his Mexican wife and kids. :)
2:59 I just finished reading "The Films of Marlon Brando." Tony Thomas 1971. Thomas wrote of "One-Eyed Jacks" directed by Brando,"...It took so long to make that the film ended up costing three times the original budget." Not a huge fan of Brando, but am a fan of film. What's fun about reading old books on film is that many movies panned when released are enjoyed today.
Peabody was played by the always great character actor Edmund O Brien. You will see him quite often in the great films in the 50's and 60's
I know you had a lot of stuff to cover but I wanted to get your reaction to seeing John Wayne acting for the first time.
It struck me another great idea..."Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955) directed by John Sturges, who also directed Magnificent Seven.
The best film actor of them all was said to be Spencer Tracy, who stars in this. It has some really scary dudes - Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine. Tracy comes to a small town and undercover a secret a town gas been trying to hide.
This is one of my favorite movies, and my favorite western. I very much enjoyed your reaction to it. I think I have found a new channel to enjoy. Liked and subscribed.
One of my favorite moments in the history of Oscar broadcasts was when Woody Strode got the biggest ovation the year he appeared in the obit reel.
Love, love love! this film!
Something I didn't grasp until the third time I saw that movie is that Rance and Holly will never get to go back home, and that Holly didn't really love Rance. She was swept off her feet by the romance of that moment and Donovan was too honorable to disillusion her. When she leaves the cactus rose, Rance finally sees that she would have been better off staying in her home town with her true love. He offers to at least take her home, and is immediately met by a reminder that if he goes back he'll have to be The Man Who every day, and then we cut to the long view of the train leaving with them on it. For all the humor, it's a very dark film. Donovan dies a miserable, impoverished, forgotten drunk; Holly is proud of Rance but yearns for Donovan and her home, and Rance has lived his whole life thinking of himself as a fraud who let someone "fight his battles for him" (a thought he couldn't bear in the restaurant scene) and now sees he failed Donovan and Holly too.
Wow- that’s enlightening!
I love your enthusiasm and willingness to explore different times and ideas. So, I subscribed.
Great Post!!! Great Movie!! I've probably watched "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" 20 times!!! It's a great movie!! Great review!!!👍🏾👍🏾
More cowboy Jimmy Stewart: check out 1939's smart, funny classic _Destry Rides Again_ with Marlene Dietrich. The comeback movie that revived her career prior to the war.
One of Stewart's most entertaining Westerns, but I don't think it's on most people's radar.
@@paintedjaguar Agreed. I think HIGH NOON is one of the most wrong-headed and ill-conceived westerns ever made.
Your reactions to those aha! moments are precious.
Woody Stroad and Lee Marvin were teamed together with Robert Ryan and Burt Lancaster in a great film portraying the early 1900s in "The Professionals". I heartily recommend it!
Its probibly my favourite western. Enjoyed your reaction.🤠
Thank you so much for watching 😊
This was a beautiful reaction to a real good movie! I love the connections you made to "The Misfits" and the changes in 60s moviemaking, and in the 60s in general! Absolutely! And you know what's great? We JUST saw "The Misfits", so it's fresh in our head! Both are 1962! I've been doing this a lot in the last few years; I'll pick a year and do a bunch of movies from the same year, and you see all kinds of parallels. This was a perfect example! How cool! Mia, seeing you discover John Wayne AND Woody Strode was a beautiful thing to see! My favorite Woody Strode performance is in Kubrick's "Spartacus", he has this scene where he completely out-acts Kirk Douglas, there's no other way of putting it! lol. Anyways, watching this with you just now, I thought how great it was to see John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart in the same frame together. Very cool. PS: 32:36 You got that gnat! Good for you! Ok, two down, one to go: "The Magnificent Seven"! :D
When I finally saw this film many years later I was surprised that the Gene Pitney song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was not in it.
Woody Strode deserves more appreciation. I'm glad you noticed him. He brought tremendous dignity and presence to every role he played, in an era when not all audiences were comfortable with a strong black man on screen. Before him, black people on screen were usually portrayed as rolling-eyed caricatures. Oh, and you should see him in "Spartacus", and "Sergeant Rutledge", the latter of which is another John Ford movie.
I've seen several movies with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. I always got the impression they really liked each other, and like working together.
Very insightful review. Enjoyed it.
Mia, I'm surprised you didn't recognize Liberty's two henchmen - the tall skinny one was Lee Van Cleef ("Angel Eyes" in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), the short one was Strother Martin (Cool Hand Luke).
He WAS in his middle years of life. James Stewart spent the Second World War in the Army Air Corps (later the US Air Force) in COMBAT. He achieved the rank of Colonel in case you wondered. During hia military career he was awarded 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 4 Air Medals, 1 Army Commendation Medal, 1 Armed Forces Reserve Medal, 1 Presidential Medal of Freedom, AND 1 French Croix de Guerre with Palm.
Stoddard may have been the man responsible for getting them statehood, may have served as a senator and as ambassador to England, and might even be president someday - but for someone who had been there in the old days none of that was as impressive as standing up to the villain. "Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance."
I am glad Mia is past her grief when James Coburn was killed in the Magnificent Seven
last week.
I expected her either to be dressed in black or just give up on movie reviews all together.
She may be interested in seeing James Coburn in The Great Escape.
@@nrkgalt We can only hope. That would be an AWESOME movie for her to react to.
There's always Our Man Flint (great theme song) and In Like Flint.
I didn't even recognize Edmund O'Brien when I first saw this movie. He's usually clean cut and plays military officers. His performance was impeccable.
as I said yesterday, I'm blessed to have discovered your channel. the classic Western I've never beginnin-to-finish seen is The Man Who Shot... Just ordered the 4K edition for $10 a few days ago.
This movie is really character driven and Ford effectively made it into a stage play with so many interior, intimate scenes.
Another great view/review of a classic - love it! I do hope you will be watching McCabe and Mrs. Miller and for more Lee Marvin the film Cat Ballou.
Carry On!!
I could recommend any number of classic films, but Shane is the first that comes to mind.
I'm dating myself but in April 1962 I turned 7. For my birthday party we were going to play baseball in our back yard but it rainede really hard that day so my dad took me and the other boys to the theater to see this movie. One of the best ever. And a lot to say about newspapermen, which my dad was and which I was too.
Mia, I just wanted to mention since it never came up in your review or in the comments so far...John Qualen, portraying Peter Erickson, the owner of the restaurant where Hallie (and Ranse) worked, also portrayed the escaped convict Earl Williams in His Girl Friday...the man Hildy hid in the roll top desk. The supporting cast members always come back around.
The following year, 1963, John Wayne and Lee Marvin again costarred together in another John Ford film, "Donovan's Reef." It too was distributed by Paramount. John Wayne starred in over 160 feature films. He loved making movies. A Jimmy Stewart film that I love is the original version of "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965). I also love "Hatari" (1963), which featured John Wayne. I see that you've reacted to "Rio Bravo," so I'll watch that video next. Jimmy Stewart costarred in John Wayne's final film, "The Shootest," which also costarred Ron Howard (he had costarred on The Andy Griffith Show as a boy and Happy Days as a teenager). He later became an award winning Director.