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You can watch The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) for free on Fawesome, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

Stoddard’s rise to political prominence rests on a carefully curated myth that trades a quiet hero for a single, violent moment of legend. This revisionist western dissects how the law often requires a lie to replace the chaos of the frontier.

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