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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (/ ˈ v æ l ə n s /) 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.
A classic western drama directed by John Ford, starring James Stewart, John Wayne, and Lee Marvin. The film tells the story of a senator who returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and reveals the truth behind his origins.
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- 1962-04-22
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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)
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Dec 28, 2011 · A classic Western by John Ford that explores the themes of law, guns, and democracy in the Old West. James Stewart, John Wayne, and Lee Marvin star in a story of love, courage, and betrayal in a town called Shinbone.
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Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin).
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