I only saw LIberty Valance in the last 2 years. Masterpiece. Couldn’t believe that Lee Marvin could play a villain and one his henchmen was a young Lee Van Cleef. Jimmy Stewart played it perfectly in this movie more than the Christmas movie..
and no UNFORGIVEN?? Blasphemy
Liberty Valance hands down number one. I much preferred Strother Martin as Marvin’s snickering, sniveling side kick. River of No Return is a must for this list.
>> Couldn’t believe that Lee Marvin could play a villain<<
You must have missed him with Brando in The Wild One.
we can beat that....just watched the whole thing this afternoon, BEFORE I saw the list...
Lee Marvin almost always played a villain, and a particularly sadistic one at that.
I believe his most insanely sadistic character was on an episode of "Bonanza" where he literally enslaved Adam Cartwright for no reason whatsoever. One really hard to watch scene interspersed scenes of Adam working himself to death with Marvin laughing like a maniac watching it all. It was really hard to watch.
Finally Adam wanders back home, almost out of his head, dragging a blanket with Marvin's character on it. Of course Marvin's character was dead.
That's one crazy thing about "Bonanza." The villains were very sadistic, their sadism was shown brutally, but they always died easy. Very frustrating.