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4X4: JOHN FORD: SEARCHING FOR LIBERTY VALANCE
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4x4 JOHN FORD PART TWO: THE SEARCHERS & THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE W/RICK PATT
Last week we talked about a few seminal Ford films that weren’t westerns (The Informer and Grapes of Wrath). This week, get them saddles secure and oil them there spurs (??) because we have two of Ford’s most famous collabs with John Wayne (the actor, not the airport).
Their most enduring of 17 films together, THE SEARCHERS (1956) is a visual reminder of the power of film. You know the story: racist dude visits his brother, who lives in an inhospitable - but lovely piece - in Monument Valley. A band of Native Americans kills the family and kidnaps Natalie Wood, resulting into an obsessive years-long hunt by Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter. It’s a difficult film, thematically, but Ford uses Wayne and his by-then sanctified screen persona to explore knotty issues in a visual way that has earned The Searchers its place at the top of the film pantheon.
Speaking of doing interesting things with Wayne’s screen persona, how about THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962)? Wayne did the film as a favor to Ford, who was well past his sell-by date in Hollywood by this point. Wayne plays a total a-hole against Jimmy Stewart, who plays a kind of harbinger of modernity in a western town with Wayne as one of them violent western tamers no longer needed. Between them (besides a way too young Vera Miles) is hothead Lee Marvin as the titular Liberty Valance, a scourge of anarchy, both a reminder of the violent recent past and a promise of what always tags along with prosperity and the illusion of safety in a society. Ford’s themes of community, violence and the intersection of a violent past and a bright future are in full display here.
A couple good ones.
Again Rick Patt curates this mini Ford fest and walks us through these films.
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