Watch this classic John Ford western for absolutely free

by · Boing Boing

You may have noticed that it's a bit warm out. As good as the sun can feel after a long winter, the temperatures that the majority of the western hemisphere has been experiencing have been a bit… extra, these past few weeks. If you're lucky enough to have the option to stay the hell out of the heat for a while, you ought to do so. Kick back in the air conditioning, hydrate as if your life depends on it (it does), and maybe distract yourself from the soup sandwich of the world's affairs for just a little while. If you've run out of things to stream or are trying to work through some of the greatest movies ever made, you could do a hell of a lot worse than to point your orbital sockets in the direction of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Filmed in 1962, it's a John Ford joint, starring Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Van Cleef and Lee Marvin. Those are big names; ones we associate with westerns because they made the genre what it once was: rough-and-tumble morality plays where story was a vehicle to drive home the right thing for folks to do, even if, sometimes, it was for the wrong reasons. As The Guardian argued on the 60th anniversary of this film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was '…the greatest western of Hollywood's Golden Age, even usurping Ford's own The Searchers that has always clambered its way near the top of greatest film lists.'

The fact that it's currently free to stream on Tubi leaves you with absolutely no excuse not to give this cracker of a film a spin.

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