Cat Ballou – My Favorite Westerns

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / Lee Marvin

Looking back on posts I made in 2013.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Lee MarvinFebruary 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987

Between The Comancheros and Cat Ballou (Oscar), Marvin continued his meteoric climb to the Hollywood heights with perhaps his most famous role as Liberty Valence in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Many will agree that Lees viscous performance easily upstages Hollywood greats John Wayne and James Stewart – and perhaps establishing an iconic benchmark for Western villainy. YET, on the official poster (below) we still see Marvin billed a distant 4th behind Stewart (billed first over Wayne?), Wayne, and Vera Miles – with no notable image of Marvin – even though his character (Valance) is in the movies title !!! I’ll never figure out Hollywood marketing.
Look for another future Western Badguy superstar (yet to emerge)
Lee (Van Cleef) as one of Marvin’s henchmen.

Liberty Valence poster — **The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Valance – Official Poster**

Liberty Valence poster 2 — **The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance**

(Above) That’s Lee at the bottom … I guess

Liberty Valence poster 3 — **The stage to Hollywood?**

Marvin - making a point — **Making a point …**

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Where's my breakfast? — **Making a stronger point**

Marvin - Demanding a recount — **I demand a recount**

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Bad ... I tell ya. — **Bad I tell ya.**

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Breakfast at Badguys — **Badguys at Breakfast – Van Cleef, Strother Martin, Marvin**

THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE - John Wayne 3 — **THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE – John Wayne**

Love him or hate him, you’d really have to search for a long time to find a lousy picture of John Wayne. This guy was charisma personified.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Woody Strode and Wayne — **Woody Strode and Wayne**

3 Western Icons — **Three great Western Film icons- Stewart, Ford, Wayne**

No lack of Star Power.

Marvin Filmography cont’d … Cat Ballou / 1966 / Part 3 …

No plain Jane

“Well, if people didn’t try something new,
there wouldn’t be hardly any progress at all.”
– Jane Fonda / Cat Ballou

CAT BALLOU - JANE FONDA — CAT BALLOU – JANE FONDA

CAT BALLOU - JANE FONDA 3 — CAT BALLOU – JANE FONDA

CAT BALLOU - Jane and Lee — CAT BALLOU – Jane and Lee

Jane Fonda - Best Actress - Coming Home 1978 — **Jane Fonda – Best Actress – ‘Coming Home’ 1978**

CAT BALLOU - The End — CAT BALLOU – The End

Marvin Filmography cont’d … Cat Ballou / 1966 / Part 2 …

Cat Ballou – Ballad of Kid Shelleen

Jane Who ?

MFW: You’re right Marilyn … nobody knew he had it in him.

Cat Ballou - Rotten Tomatoes — Cat Ballou – Rotten Tomatoes Review

Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin) demonstrates his gun hand ….

Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin - Kid Shelleen 2 — **Don’t do this at home folks …**

Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin - Kid Shelleen 4 — **Kid Shelleen … shooting everything in the vicinity …**

Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin - Kid Shelleen — **Kid Shelleen … ready for action**

Cat Ballou - Nat 'King' Cole and Stuby Kaye — Cat Ballou – Nat ‘King’ Cole and Stubby Kaye

The whole dang gang:
Dwayne Hickman, Michael Callan, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Tom Nardini

Marvin Filmography cont’d … Cat Ballou / 1966 / Part 1 …

“He did it! He missed the barn!”

MFW: And now for something COMPLETELY different: a movie so unique that it almost defies category: One the strangest … Westerns? … definitely a comedy … ever made. Unique .. funny … star studded … award winning … and it made lottsa money.