The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to ...

Monte Walsh features serious, realistic, gloomy, sentimental and bleak style.

When Dutton Peabody stumbles back drunk to his newspaper office, he partially recites the Saint Crispin's Day speech from William Shakespeare's "Henry V". The speech, given just before Henry V's army defeats a superior French force, foreshadows the upcoming gun battle between Ransom Stoddard and gunslinger Liberty Valance.