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Must-See Westerns

THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

November 2, 2025November 3, 2025 Michael J. Casey

If the Western is the vehicle with which contemporary filmmakers investigate the past to understand the present, then Liberty Valance illuminates how unrest in the 20th century reached back to the 19th century to uncover the lies America has been telling itself ever since. Continue reading THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

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RIO GRANDE

January 7, 2021August 8, 2024 Michael J. Casey

It’s 1950, and John Ford wants to make a movie: The Quiet Man, from a story by Maurice Walsh, about a retired boxer who returns to his birthplace in Ireland and falls for a vivacious redhead. The movie will star John Wayne … Continue reading RIO GRANDE

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