Duke died in the Cowboys.
Yep, Liberty Valence is a real classic. When you see the gun barrel in the ally... you instantly know.
I mean, when Jimmy kills Liberty, it is as implausible as when Tom Hanks blows up the tank in private Ryan with his .45 auto — then you see “the rest of the story”.
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Had to really coerce my GF to watch it with me. I initially kinda “lied” there was romance in it (just by looking at the images) and she looked at me “yeah right”. After the movie. she was choked up and mentioned John Wayne gave up the woman of his dreams bec. he knew she had a better future with Stoddard.
and one last thing I noticed. It was a young Lee Van Cleef as one of Liberty (Lee Marvin’s) henchmen.