“Sir, I don’t want to intrude. But a United States Senator is news. I’m the editor of a newspaper with a state~wide circulation. I’ve got a responsibility to know why you came all the way down here to bury a man. You can’t just say ‘his name was Tom Doniphon,’ and leave it at that. Who was Tom Doniphon?!”
“He was a friend, Mr. Scott. And we’d like to be left alone.”
I had resisted seeing “THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE” almost all my movie-going life. John Ford...he’s a’ight.. Westerns…meh.
I finally saw the movie.
…and on the big screen.
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