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Original title: Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 5, 2001
• R2: 22 Apr 2002
Budget $3,200,000
Running Time
2 hours, 3 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
John Ford Productions, Paramount Pictures
Studio Paramount, Wills Goldbeck
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Other Titles
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Der Mann der Liberty Valance erschoss (1962)
• Der Mann, der Liberty Valance erschoß (1962)
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Genre: Western, Law, Society, Outlaws, Epic, Cult Classic, Deception, Love
Tagline: Together For The First Time - James Stewart - John Wayne - in the masterpiece of four-time Academy Award winner John Ford
Plot: In John Ford's stark, melancholy swan song for the conventional frontier Western, aged Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns to the small town of Shinbone with his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), for the funeral of his friend, Tom Doniphan (John Wayne), where he recounts for reporters his relationship with the man. His arrival in the town years earlier as a newly minted lawyer had been welcomed with a vicious beating by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), a flamboyant thug hired by powerful business interests fearful of the lawyer's intentions to stump for statehood. Doniphan, a rancher and feared gunman, finds Stoddard unconscious, takes him into town, and continues to protect him, particularly after coming to realize that the woman he loves cares more for the lawyer. Despite Doniphan's warnings that the only law in the region comes at the end of a gun barrel, the stubborn lawyer insists on teaching the illiterate townspeople about the rule of law in a democratic society. When Stoddard is elected as the regional delegate to the territorial convention, Valance baits the politician, a notoriously inept gunman, into a showdown. The film, which plays like a Western version of Freud's CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, reflects the aging director's ambivalence about many of the
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John Ford
The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man |
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John Wayne
The Searchers, The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo |
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 | Lee Marvin
The Dirty Dozen, The Caine Mutiny, Bad Day at Black Rock |
 | Lee Van Cleef
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, High Noon, For a Few Dollars More |
 | Edmond O'Brien
The Wild Bunch, White Heat, The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Andy Devine
Stagecoach, How the West Was Won, Robin Hood | |
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