Who Shot Liberty Valance

Watched this movie yesterday. It was on the TIVO from a recent Turner Classic Movies and it was a great movie. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne with Lee Marvin as the the gunslinger Liberty Valance. This was a John Ford western shot in black and white. In 1962 they certainly had color available but the director felt that color would add nothing to the story.

Jimmy Stewart was an incredible actor in this movie. The rivalry over the girl between Stewart and Wayne's character was very good but yet Wayne still did the right thing in the end. Of course we always expect John Wayne to do the right thing.

At the end of the movie Rance ( played by Stewart) and his wife are leaving on the train and it Rance asks his wife who left the cactus rose on Tom Donovan's ( played by Wayne) coffin. She tells him she did and he looks at her and is about to say something else and is interrupted by the train conductor and we never know what he was going to ask.

Jimmy Stewart made some incredible movies and is one of my favorite actors. This movie was another of his best.

Rating: 8.5