The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Paramount, 1962)
“A poignant, mournful, dying fall” Like many people, I am not a huge fan of John Ford’s late Westerns. The Searchers was the last really good one he made, I think, and that was in 1956. The Horse Soldiers in 1959 was really very ordinary (despite a fine performance from William Holden). Sergeant […]