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Andrés rating:
10
Western Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters the truth about how he came to be known as 'the man who shot Liberty Valance.' Many years before, as a dishwasher and aspiring lawyer, Ransom had encouraged Shinbone to stand up against the highwayman Valance (Lee Marvin), a thug who also enforced the ... [+]
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December 4, 2005
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El último westerm, o acaso el primero. El maestro del género nos sorprende con una obra casi teatral, deliberadamente árida, salvaje y falsa, como la política; reinventa el género y lo da por concluido. Ninguna otra obra de Ford tiene esta intensidad y pulso narrativo, ni personajes tan reales. Tiene la hondura y madurez que tanto escasea, pero sobre todo tiene sutileza. Es la obra mas madura del Shakespeare del celuloide.
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