The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance's Final Line Still Defines the Western Genre
Originally published as: 64 Years Later, the Greatest Western's Final Line Still Officially Defines the Genre
There's something poetic about the fact that the famous "final line" of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance isn't technically the last words uttered in the 1962 revisionist Western by John Ford. A train scene follows the fateful line, "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.