The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 4K 1962

A young lawyer, played by James Stewart, comes to a small town to sow the reasonable, the good, the eternal. But the townspeople, led by Wayne's character, are used to solving all problems with guns. Doesn't it remind you of anything? I immediately began to feel a sense of déjà vu, but I realized what it was only after the phrase of John Wayne 'That was my steak! '. It was this movie, in part, that Mironov and Karachentsov parodied in Alla Surikov's wonderful old comedy "Man from Capuchin Boulevard," so beloved by me and, I hope, by many other Russians. But that comedy, and this - the Western, and in the best sense of the word.

Stewart perfectly plays a man who finally realizes that the law does not exist only in words, the law must be defended with a gun in his hand. Wayne is just like him, a strong and tragic character. O'Brien is very colorful in the role of the newspaper editor. In general, the entire cast is splendid, and the duet of the main characters, in my opinion, is one of the best in the history of the American western.

In conclusion, it should be written that Ford has made his own special film with light humor, an interesting plot and good dramaturgy. You can draw an analogy with the director's earlier film - 'My Dear Clementine.

The same ambiguous hero (Wayne this time) who brings dramaturgical conflict to the narrative, the same love triangle and, finally, a clearly defined frontier between good and evil, true and false values.

An undeniable classic.