The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by John Ford
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Actor: Edmond O'Brien, James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera MilesDirector: John Ford
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: William H. Clothier
Producer: John Ford
Editor: Otho Lovering
Producer: Willis Goldbeck
Writer: Willis Goldbeck
Writer: Dorothy M. Johnson
Writer: James Warner Bellah
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie Review: Sloppy, Yet Memorable
Summary: 4 Stars
On the surface, this black-and-white western from director John Ford looks like a "B" movie. It's long, often overacted and the direction is sloppy. Yet, because of its storyline and the forthright message that it conveys, the 1962 release is one of the most memorable films of Ford's illustrious career.
James Stewart plays a well-meaning, albeit naive, lawyer from the East, who arrives in the small western town of Shinbone and immediately comes up against nefarious gunman Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). Valance has been terrorizing the community with nobody around to stop him. In fact, the only man around capable of standing up to him is rancher John Wayne, but Valance has wisely avoided this confrontation.
Stewart, however, pushes for justice. With the encouragement of waitress Vera Miles, who Wayne is also courting, and the help of newspaper editor Edmond O'Brien, he campaigns for statehood, which Valance opposes. Then, on one fateful night, violence erupts in Shinbone, and the non-violent Stewart must meet Valance in the street with a gun in his hand.
This is the sort of moment from which legends are born, but if the true facts and the legend disagree, then as John Ford tells us, "Print the legend."
It makes one wonder how much of the world's "official" history is more legend than fact.
? Michael B. Druxman
Summary of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
A tenderfoot lawyer and a powerful rancher are rivals in lovet who stand together against a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: James Stewart Vera Miles Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Ford"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." That's more than the code of a newspaperman in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; it's practically the operating credo of director John Ford, the most honored of American filmmakers. In this late film from a long career, Ford looks at the civilizing of an Old West town, Shinbone, through the sad memories of settlers looking back. In the town's wide-open youth, two-fisted Westerner John Wayne and tenderfoot newcomer James Stewart clash over a woman (Vera Miles) but ultimately unite against the notorious outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). Ford's nostalgia for the past is tempered by his stark approach, unusual for the visual poet of Stagecoach and The Searchers. The two heavyweights, Wayne and Stewart, are good together, with Wayne the embodiment of rugged individualism and Stewart the idealistic prophet of the civilization that will eventually tame the Wild West. This may be the saddest Western ever made, closer to an elegy than an action movie, and as cleanly beautiful as its central symbol, the cactus rose. --Robert Horton
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