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‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ getting the remake treatment

Another remake? Shoot me. Variety reports that the latest classic to get the remake treatment is John Ford’s 1962 film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The original starred John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, and Lee Marvin. While the original was set in the old west, Variety reports that the remake may be set …

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Making Of The West: Mythmakers and truth-tellers

The “adult” Western – as it would come to be called –  was a long time coming.  A Hollywood staple since the days of The Great Train Robbery (1903), the Western offered spectacle and action set against the uniquely American milieu of the Old West – a historical period which, at the dawn of the motion picture …

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