John Wayne's Coolest Scenes #23: Flashback, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962)
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2018
- In this John Ford classic, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) reveals a dark secret...
...to senate candidate Ranse Stoddard (James Stewart).
(SPOILER ALERT!)
...and Duke notches up one of the greatest performances of his career.
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"Taught her how to read and write, now give her something to read and write about!" Haha he delivers this line like a boss.
One of the most painful movies ever seen about sacrifice for the good of the whole (like gone with the wind). When I fully understood the gravity of the situation as a grown up seeing this film, I was moved beyond words. What a sacrifice John Wayne's character made and the same for Jimmy Stewart. So many people sacrificed so much to turn this country around to a land of laws. Unfortunately so many have now tried to turn us around to a lawless country again. We are so far removed from the US Constitution it is disgusting (if you really understand the Constitution and the intent of the creators of the US constitution). Shame on you all who have failed to support the Constitution that this movie tried to uphold!
Comparing the greatest Western every made to garbage like :Gone With theWind" should be a capital offense.
Thank you
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Thank you for that! On a bad day for me today trying to uphold the law. This made me smile… yes the Constitution we swore to. Always..
gone with the wind - good of the whole? i dont remember that in the book.
The best line- "when legend becomes fact, print the legend."
That doesn’t make any sense
One of Wayne's darker and deeper roles, but it made for one of the finest western motion pictures of all time.
Man, this is one of the Duke's best performances.
I heard they knew duke had cancer tried to get him to use it stands in he refused said when people pay to see a johnwayne film they pay to see John wayne
Movies period
Creep was a draft dodger. I hate draft dodgers.
@@nicholasgidaro5692 if your saying John Wayne was a coward you dont know squat. He tried to join the Navy during WW2 but the government told him he could help the war effort more by making patriotic movies. Like Ronald Reagan, who made movies and even training films.
A hugely underrated movie.
I think this is one of Mr Wayne's best performances. It destroyed him to lose Hallie but thru out the film, his character continues to do the right thing. Including saving his rivals life. One of the great western movie performances.
he may be good in a conventional sense, but he is still considered villain in the sense that he's an outlaw. The arrival of Pilgirm to Shinbone Star means that civiliziation is going to take place in this small town. Tom Doniphon knows that, so it makes him and Liberty Valance the same type, outlaws who know they're no longer having a place in the transforming community. The scene where he burns down the house is the best scene to me in the whole film, and John Wayne nailed it.
And don't forget "The Searcher's"
The searchers was his best then this one
No , he’s not an outlaw he’s just part of the old way of life not bad not good but definitely not civilized . And never could live in a civilized society . He is part of what made the legend of the West .
The way he took out Liberty Valance was chickenshit. Wayne also collected dolls.
One of the finest movies ever made. I saw it in the theater when I was a kid. Gets better every time I see it.
Greatest Western ever made.
When did you see it?
Underrated
The movie wasn't shot on location, it was shot on the lot. Lot of costumes they're wearing are from wardrobe
I will always be a huge John Wayne fan. I just find it ironic that we have Jimmy Stewart as a wimp in this movie. Yet he flew 20 combat missions as a bomber jock in WW2. He stayed in the US Air Force Reserve and rose to the rank of Brigadier General. Lee Marvin was the bad guy in this movie, but he served in the US Marine Corps during WW2 and was wounded during combat on Saipan. He got the Purple Heart. They were REAL American heroes.
James Stewart wasn't playing a wimp - just someone who had a different view on how the future should be...
@@georgebuller1914 He was a wimp by 19th century western standards. That was the whole point.
Jimmy Stewart was the first movie actor to volunteer in ww2
Indeed they were! I worked with a guy who when he was in the USAF in Viet Nam was inspected in formation by Brigadier General Stewart. Talk about second-hand bragging, eh?
IT'S CALLED "ACTING"😎
John Wayne’s character Tom was a rough and hard man but had a good heart and knew what was right. He gave up the girl and made another man a hero. Don’t get much bigger than that.
Tom Doniphin, that was his characters name 📛📛 as he told Valance he was the other man 👞👞 across the Pickettwire River, that people had too be wary of? That was besides Liberty Vance's fast gun 🔫🔫 and loo down, Tricks. A Fine fine 🙂🙂😊😊 film, with many hidden, life lessons, too be realized, and taught!! W,Robert, 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇲🇨🇦👀👀😎😎🤔🤔🙏🙏
Ranse was the man who stood in front of the villain, even though he knew he probably had no chance. Through the whole movie, he stood up for what he thought to be right.
really? i thought it was a movie and all fake,just made up--what did i miss?
I don’t care what anyone says negative about John Wayne concerning his political views and personal misgivings and failures.He had a lot of True Grit and love and respect for his fans,his family which he as best as he humanly could provided for and love for his country and I believe trust and love for the almighty God.He was and will always be the King of the Cowboys!Bar none!
Even if he was the only cowboy that ever collected dolls, LOL
This movie made me love John Wayne. It is so deep and strong and the sacrifice John played was so touching. I wasn't born during that time, but my heart feels like it was to experience the heartache that character felt, and sacrifice he endured when he lost his love, just so touching. Of course Stewart's innocent role was also very endearing! One of the best movies of all time!
He waited too long, should of married her much sooner, she would stuck by him.
wonder how you could get so involved with some made up story
John Wayne was underrated as an actor...and this proves it.
John Wayne had so many cool scenes I can't even remember them all. A true legend.
And he was even greater in person! I worked for his best friend and John was bigger then life and ever one around him knew it too!
An iconic Masterpiece with a legendary Cast: John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin, Lee van Cleef, Vera Miles, Woody Strode, John Carradine.
Add stronger martin
Yes, Lawd....
One of the best movies ever! Jimmy and Duke, RIP!
Every John Wayne scene is the coolest scene..
One of the Dukes best! Lee Marvin did a great dying scene.
Almost 50 years have passed since I saw this movie. As a very young child, I stood in front of the TV. I never forgot the scene. Just like some scenes from Rio Bravo and The Searchers. John Wayne was a global brand-name, as were Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali.
I agree with everyone you mentioned except the last name.
He was a pos racist draft dodger.
One of my all time favorite western movies. Sad that they didn't get the music onto the film. It was a great song.
"Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valence."
I felt when the conductor said that, it added the bitterness to sweet ending of this film.
I felt that when the conductor said that, it add the bitterness to the sweet ending to this wonderful movie.
The man who proclaimed the Law - whose lauded for an act of violence! Very ironic.
I love this scene! It shows what an honorable man Tom is and how smart he is. Great movie!
Dear ROB"S MOVIE COLLECTION
I like the scene where Tom saves Rances life also.You are soooo right,Tom is an honorable Man.He not only saved Rance for the woman he loved,but he also eased Rance's conscience in believing he shot a Man down even if it was Self-Defense.
@@Karlam20001 Well said. It's not for nothing that it's one of the greatest movies!
Karl Murray And probably also, Tom knew Rance would never be the same again if he had really pulled the trigger on Valance. Nobody would be the same again when they’ve shot someone for the first time. Tom had already been through that many times and he possibly didn’t want that happening to Rance.
I think it was chickenshit, a real man would have drawn Liberty's attention away from Stewart. Of course in real life your hero collected dolls.
After all these years John Wayne is STILL the steeliest-eyed sob I've ever seen.
There will never be another John Wayne
Anyone who doesn't love black-and-white movies needs to study the scene in alley. If it had been shot in color, it would have been a lot less dramatic and a lot less epic and mythic.
Four years later Clint Eastwood would enter our world as the the good / bad guy in the Sergio Leone trilogy. This scene has many of the facets from that trilogy; the lines delivered between puffs of cigarette smoke, the bad deed done a for good reason. Clearly Wayne did it very well here. I am a huge fan of both. Cool scene.
This just might be the most powerfull western ever made!!!
John Wayne essentially played the same character in most of his westerns. Most others including myself really didn't care because he was that entertaining. But what many people don't know is that he based his cowboy off a gentleman he knew from his early days in motion pictures. At the time, Hollywood had a consultant they used whenever they filmed a western. Every day, John Wayne (who was at the time an extra and was starting to break out on his own) would talk with this consultant during lunch breaks. The consultant regailed him with stories of what life was like back in the wild west and how cowboys were. That consultant's name? Wyatt Earp.
His characters in STAGECOACH, RED RIVER, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, HONDO, THE SEARCHERS, ALAMO, LIBERTY VALANCE, TRUE GRIT, THE COWBOYS and THE SHOOTIST are not the same characters for me.
My favorite John Wayne's movie.
John Wayne did thousands of good scenes.
One of the finest films ever I ever saw, this movie was that and a whole lot more.
Love the contrast in temperament between the two lead players. Fantastic acting!
Agreed.
LV is the Serpent of Chaos that refuses and hates order (statehood)
Rance is the mediator that will save the people and turn this rough and raw creation into a new ordered Eden
Tom is the strong watcher character that could have stopped LV long ago, but never wanted to stoop to his level.
Tom just finally tossed a thunderbolt that his archangel was always holding for him. Look back at the steak scene.
I love John Wayne.
He stood for everything american.
Sadly, his america is gone forever.
We are in a very sad part of our history, not so Presidential Joe Biden, was supposed to unite us, he is a man with no common sense, he’s a spender and taxer, his open border is a disaster with no one being vetted, plus additional fentanyl coming across the border, my heart sinks for the people murdered from Biden’s hasty retreat! He just doesn’t plan well, and doesn’t care about the common man! Fuel prices through the roof, some poorer families can’t afford to heat their homes! We have over priced natural gas with joe Biden’s policies! He’s a disaster!
@@lancevoorhees7318 Perhaps you would explain to us what the potus can actually do about fuel prices (if they're so important, I mean)
@@Chrisjude100 our dear President, shut down all drilling on Federal drilling areas, he shut down a pipeline going to Texas Refinery in Houston! We were energy independent actually selling oil and gas world wide, and causing lower fuel prices so much we put a hurt on the Russians, Iranians, etcetera! Christopher take a trip to your local fuel station in California and you’ll see $5.00 or more per gallon for diesel and unleaded! That’s because dumbass Biden’s policies! Guess how much fentanyl is coming across the border under, enough to kill 60,000 people last year, have you noticed higher fuel prices have caused groceries to go up, natural gas is higher per gallon to keep your house heated! None of this happened during Trump, it all started when Biden was named President, in one year Biden made many mistakes, need I go on!
Dan, yes the Middle East has players, get this Dan we filled the market with so much gas and oil it drove prices down, Biden’s policies, he shut down the Keystone pipeline, and stopped drilling Federal lands that were producing!, he stopped fracking that was bringing old wells back on line! I guess you didn’t know we were energy independent! Biden has crippled our production, put people out of work, and shut our volume down! Are you unable to understand this? We stop producing, prices go up because demand is high and there’s not as much production! It’s really simple!
@@lancevoorhees7318 absolutely correct!!👏👍
Love the way he waits before giving back the rifle.
If Wayne would have had to shoot again, Stewart would have known that he did not kill Valence
I so loved Vera Miles. Thanks for posting.
I saw this film in a drive in theatre when it was first released. I was 10 years old, and it affected me deeply.
I was 4 years old in 63, never the. less, I was always in love with this man..
This is absolutely true! My fav part; in my fav movie! It’s been repeating like crazy on cable lately and I’m so glad to see it every time!
One of The Dukes best movies! A true American icon! RIP 🙏🇺🇸
Wayne was spectacular in True Grit, The Shootist and The Man That Shot Liberty Valance. Three GREAT films.
And the 4th,...The Searchers. A true classic.
"A man ought to do what he thinks is right."
No matter what it costs. A man's got to have a code and live by it, or he's nothing.
Top five of my all time favorite westerns.
"Whiskey , Quick ". ......."Dead"!......Fabulous line...JRS
That was great
My favorite scene from one of my favorite movies. I remember seeing it as a kid it was a real shocker.
This is my favorite John Wayne performance. Something about him being in a supporting role but having such a presence.
John Wayne was top billing in this movie James Stewart got more screen time.
without bad ass Lee Marvin. and tough guy John Wayne, and law man Jimmy Steward, the movie woukd not have had been oerfect! the cast was the best! there were bad guys and bullies then and now! Stories endless of truths and fiction , this movie was so real of the past telling a tale! i coukd watch this movie a billion times without getting bord! this part was super well done!
Marvin's Oscar for Cat Ballou was partly an apology for ignoring him in TMWSLV.
Mr. Wayne, Marvin and Stroud are fabulous performing icons of 🎥 film.
Another fine performance....... one of many.
This was a great movie and when I saw scene for the first time it was mind blowing.
my favorite western
my favorite john Wayne movie too.....
i also like the restaurant
scene & the final scene
when the conductor tells Stewart "...nothing's to good for the man who shot Liberty Valance..."
Actually watched this film last night on Netflix! IMO ,one of Wayne's best, as well as a great performance by Jimmy Stewart.
I watched it last night, 9/4 on GRIT. This movie still provides mixed emotions of sadness and happiness.
A superb film
Best role I've seen the Duke in. There's a back story about how John Ford got him in the mood to play Doniphon, and it worked very well. Not a huge fan of Wayne, I like him, but not one of my favorites. But I think he raised his game pretty high in this one.
Perfectly said!
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LOL torturing Wayne by Ford is now called "got him in the mood". Ford's tongue was razor sharp.
Wayne owed his career to John ford.
I watched this in a film class on high school damn near one of favorite movies
Real love is putting aside Ur happiness for that of the Woman U love. Tom does that here. Same as Bogie does in Casablanca.' Doing the right thing!!!
You are right- putting aside your own happiness for something larger than you. A great comment!
You are so right because I have had to do the right thing to when it comes to the one you love and it may hurt and change your whole life but it was still the right thing to do for the one you love!
you people crack me up--it is all fake,pretend--just acting--none of this really happened
Great movie!
John Wayne has always been my hero since I was a kid he was definitely a real man's man fiction or not RIP hero
I was never a fan of the John Wayne type western. I grew up on the Eastwood legend but I absolutely love this movie.
John Ford directing. The best of films
Other than the Searchers, this was the best movie ever made!!
A contender for best Western.
One of the best movies ever made.
when you talk about bad guy's Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance is the number 1 bad guy in the movies, MEAN, BRUTAL, SADISTIC.
John and Jimmy were on point in their roles, however, Lee Marvin? How does one prepare for such a role? In some scenes when he used the whip, his tongue was hanging out of his mouth. Have Mercy.
"Cold-blooded murder, but I can live with it." Fav John Wayne line. Killing Valance was like killing a snake.
That fact that they all did that in one single take together is amazing ❤ it was sooo good & realistic!!!!
What a great pair of actors! So convincing in their parts!
Thanks, Porfie!! Keep on posting.
My hero at his best xx
I loved the movie and especially this scene. The character Doniphon was a mean and tough guy but his heart was true. He sacrificed all he loved for the pilgrim. Like a true stoic he did what was right and accepted the consequences and did not complain. Reminds me of something that Jesus said - that no greater love hath any man than to lay down his life for another.... It was an ideal that I tried to hold to in my life. The tragedy is that for most men you maybe get a chance once or twice in a lifetime to be heroic, but the fact is that most of the time you do not get to be recognized for what you are, what you did; you just get cast aside. There is little comfort in knowing that you did right. There is only the knowing that you did right and the alternative was unacceptable.
it was all fake,just a movie,not real same as jesus because you were not there and have no idea what was really going in spite of your fake comic book wriitten by dudes in a cave
Really didn't see that reveal coming. Great film.
Fabolous role of John Wayne sensational He is Tom Doniphon
I've been reviewing the shooting scene in 0.25 speed repeatedly. I think Ranse DID shoot Liberty. His shot was first, level and pointed at the target. Liberty's reaction is consistent with being shot in the guts. He fires and Don fires a split second later. Liberty is already reacting to Ranse's shot when Don fires. Liberty does a quick double movement as he is hit by two bullets from different angles. Very well done.
he missed look close you can see where the bullet hit the building not liberty. then wayne put the bullet in him
A bad shot shooting left-handed... highly unlikely he would have hit Valance.
Guys…it’s a movie.
Doing forensics on a movie when we know exactly what the script says….
Liberty goes straight back meaning the bullet that hits him is from the front.
Despite my critics, this is one of the best movies of alltime. Love of country, God, family, nation, all of it is in this movie. I am not from the WW2 generation but feel like I am, honor, God, country, family, dignity, where did all this go? Where did dignity towards family?
The idea of John Wayne teaching Jimmy Stewart how to be a tough guy is hilarious.
Thanks all this. Quit enjoyed it.
Just this past year I watched this movie...it's as old as I am.
I feel like this is a very underrated western my favorite western film
John Wayne is an American Icon. I don't care who disparages him, for whatever reason. The Duke IS Americana!
Amazing what you can do in the old Hollywood sound stages. Almost smell John Ford's cigar smoke.
Three phenomenal actors. When men were real men.
I think this is his finest. Movies. And there were lots a goid ones,,,
John Ford able to build the myth and tear down the legend at the same time. Quite a genius.
He made this earlier in FORT APACHE, too.
Definitely my favorite John Wayne movie.
One of the best Westerns ever made!
The fighting men who made the world safe for civilisation, too often find that they do not fit civilisation when it arrives.
Wayne’s character is the frontiersman, the fighter, the one who can deal with bad men so the land is safe for women and families. Stewart’s character is the pillar or a peaceful, orderly society.
We’d find similar themes in many stories of veterans who have trouble fitting into peaceful societies . Wayne’s character, Ethan Edwards, shows exactly that in “The Searchers”.
John Wayne's character Tom errs when he says that his shoot of Liberty Valance was "cold blooded murder." As in the flashback, LV had just told James Stewart's character that he would now shoot him "right between the eyes," Tom shot LV to prevent that murder. In cowboy parlance, he "headed it off at the pass."
Yes, but that was the difference between the two protagonists. Tom was talking in terms of the Western code that permitted duels.
@@opencommentsbbcnewsnight1704 There was no such code that permitted duels in the Old West, and those "High Noon" fast-draw shootouts of the dime novels and movies almost never happened in reality. And in those days when you shot someone whether you got hung for murder or not depended upon the luck of which judge happened to hear your case. Law was a very fluid affair in the Old West, often being whatever a judge or a sheriff said it was --- that is where there was one.
Obra MAESTRA TOTAL la tengo y vi muchas veces una de las mejores de la historia
You pick it up Liberty, you PICK it up!
My favorite Western movie ever...or any movie for that matter...
Woode was awesome too! RIP!
Just great xxx
I put "The Searchers" as Wayne's best performance, but this and "The Quiet Man" round out my top 3.
That's what you call a pep talk!
"Cold-blooded murder. But I can live with it." Hard man. Real hard man. Love that line.
BTW. Look at the picket signs on the wall when they enter the office then when they leave...see a difference?
Watched this many times but never noticed! Thanks
Not many people really care. Get a life!
Two things lee Marvin had the best laugh ever and I love how john wayne throws the rifle back it was like here Pompeii you hold the murder weapon haha seriously though this is one of my favorite movies. The end when the conductor said nothing is too good for the man who shot liberty valance even though the man who really shot him was being buried in a paupers grave without his boots or gun. One of the movies john wayne should have gotten an Oscar for.
John Wayne ,
The only man to make a Vietnam War picture while the actual Vietnam War was going on ,
The Green Berets
And he doesn't look half bad for a man that's 116 years old
JW you rock
One of John Wayne's best rolls.
Must have been 6 or 7 when mom took me to see this in the theater. Duke was wonderful in it.
This film, The Shootist and The Searchers are the three of my favorite Westerns of The Duke.
One of their best works.
Easily one of the Duke's top 5 movies and a top 5 coolest scene.