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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (/ ˈvæləns /) is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and James Stewart. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck was adapted from a 1953 short story written by Dorothy M. Johnson.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Directed by John Ford. With James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin. A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
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- Drama, Western
- John Ford
- 1962-04-22
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Aug 19, 2020 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance paired James Stewart and John Wayne but here's who killed the title villain, and the final twist explained.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, American western film, released in 1962, that was John Ford’s poetic and sombre look at the end of the Wild West era. Although atypical of his usual works, it is widely considered Ford’s last great movie and among his best westerns.
The story opens with the return of elderly U.S. Sen. Ransom Stoddard (played by James Stewart) and his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), to their small hometown of Shinbone in the American West. They are there to pay their respects to their old friend Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), who is being buried in a pauper’s grave. Stoddard, who rode to fame as a tenderfoot lawyer credited with having fatally shot the notorious gunman Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), makes a startling confession to local newspaper reporters. In a tale told in flashback, he relates how he arrived in Shinbone hoping to establish a law office but found the town terrorized by Valance and his gang. Although Stoddard was meek in nature, Valance’s continued harassment of him resulted in an impromptu showdown in which Valance was shot dead. Stoddard thus became a local legend, and he was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate. However, he confesses to the local reporters that he had learned years ago that it was Doniphon who actually fired the fatal shot at Valance and later allowed Stoddard to be credited with the deed. Despite his confession, Stoddard finds the press uninterested in publishing the revelation, preferring instead to let his myth remain unaffected. As one journalist says—in the film’s famous tagline— “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
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•Studio: Paramount Pictures
•Director: John Ford
•Producer: Willis Goldbeck
•Writers: James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck
•Music: Cyril Mockridge
•Running time: 123 minutes
•James Stewart (Ransom Stoddard)
•John Wayne (Tom Doniphon)
•Vera Miles (Hallie Stoddard)
•Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Featuring a trio of classic leading men and a rich story captured by a director at the peak of his craft, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of the finest Westerns ever filmed. Read...
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Dec 28, 2011 · Valance and his two sidekicks hold up a stagecoach on the way to town, and when one of the passengers, Ransom, stands up to him Liberty nearly whips him to death. In town, he’s nursed back to health by Nora and Peter Ericson, two recent Swedish immigrants who run the local chowhouse.
