An underappreciated star stole scenes from both Western legends.
The Big Picture Move over Wayne and Eastwood — Lee Van Cleef is here to steal your scene! Sure, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are practically synonymous with Westerns , but Van Cleef is the most under-appreciated and overlooked regular of the genre. His hawkish, piercing eyes and naturally intimidating demeanor make him an effortless antagonist, but his skill as an actor reaches way beyond his ability to mean mug.
It's more of the same in the John Wayne-starring The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Van Cleef sticks to the background, his lines of dialogue few and far in between, meanmugging every goddamn person in the frame. It's a shame that his character is punched out by Wayne's and rendered useless for the rest of the movie — he made a convincing scoundrel that should have made it to the climax. Of course, most notable are Van Cleef's roles in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy.
Again, it's for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly that Van Cleef will be most remembered, and for good reason. As the movie's sadistic, cold-blooded villain, Angel Eyes mows down a man after interrupting his breakfast, slays another in his bed, and backstabs anybody that he needs to in order to get what he wants.
In this dual-headed revenge flick, Van Cleef makes up for lackluster antagonists by being at once "hero" and folly. He shoots faster, acts smarter, and rides harder than Law. His character, morally-flawed, is redeemed through his fatherly admiration for Law's character. Here is an aging man, hardened through a painful past, set to pondering the time lost while wrongfully imprisoned.
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