Archive for tag: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

“I don’t like those hard goodbyes” – Strother Martin

12 September, 2009 (11:38) | Interviews, by Richard T. Jameson | By: Richard T. Jameson

[Originally published in Movietone News 66-67, March 1981]
Introduction by Richard T. Jameson
Strother Martin thought the folks from the Seattle Film Society wanted to meet him just because he had done some jobs of work for Sam Peckinpah and they had had Sam to tea a year or so earlier. Not that that gave [...]

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John Ford’s Wilderness: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

21 May, 2009 (09:55) | John Ford, by David Coursen | By: David Coursen

[originally published in slightly different form in Sight and Sound, Autumn 1978, Volume 47 No. 4; reprinted with thanks to BFI]
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance has been so widely discussed, dissected and applauded that by now it must rank as one of John Ford’s least underappreciated films. Its reputation is due in no small [...]

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