Posted on 05/30/2024 12:02:34 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Two of the most awesome scenes ever to hit the big screen. Links to follow in #2 to avoid fail.
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“The movie that showed us that nonviolence will in the end overcome violence, as long as you have someone really violent watching your back.” (Comment posted on second link)
Why Christians trust in God.
Thank you so much! I do need a refill, and this is just the thing I needed. BTW, at the link someone references Lee Marvin’s military career, by way of saying that both he Jimmy Stewart were war heroes. I knew about Stewart but not about Marvin. When I looked him up I learned this from the evil Wikipedia, which just delights me:
Marvin participated in 21 amphibious assaults on Japanese-held islands. He was wounded in action on June 18, 1944, while taking part in the assault on Mount Tapochau during the Battle of Saipan, in the course of which most of his company became casualties.[8] He was hit by machine gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve,[9] and then was hit again in the foot by a sniper.[10] After over a year of medical treatment in naval hospitals, Marvin was given a medical discharge with the rank of private first class. He previously held the rank of corporal, but had been demoted for troublemaking.[10]
When you’re in the middle of the violence, you can’t be betting that you’ll overcome. Peabody might have been killed. So might Stoddard. It so happened that they prevailed, but they were making a stand regardless of the outcome. Without that level of commitment by the good guys, evil will prevail.
I noticed in this viewing that Valance’s winning hand was “aces and eights,” the same that legend has it Wild Bill Hickock pulled right before being shot in the back, now known as the “Dead Man’s Hand.” Also noticed that Peabody, while staggering around drunk was reciting out loud Shakespeare’s Saint Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V. Always new things to see in a great work of art.
Liberty Valance? Why I just saw thar person posting here yesterday! No way they got shot!
Modern medicine. Cloning. Either that, or somebody’s daddy had a real perverse sense of humor.
Always ping a FReeper when you mention them!
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” - John Ford, Who shot Liberty Valance.
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxeMd8EzP04“
The Royal Guardsmen did a tune by the name of Liberty Valence. Sweet melody. Well done. Have hears it many times from childhood.
For later.
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Got the story completely wrong, though.
Fake news was born.
Good movie! Great cast!
And Luke Plummer’s hand was Aces and Eights in the 1939 Stagecoach.
“””” He previously held the rank of corporal, but had been demoted for troublemaking.””””
And that scenes show why, as Gomer Pyle would say, he was trouble!, trouble!, trouble!
Lee Van Cleef was a good bad guy in that one.
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