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: STEWART,JAMES
Cinematographer: William H. Clothier
Editor: Otho Lovering
Writer: Dorothy M. Johnson
Writer: James Warner Bellah
Writer: Willis Goldbeck
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
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie Review: "Nothing is too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance!"
Summary: 5 Stars
As the "Old West" is dying and statehood and a new, more complex society looms, a Senator, played by Jimmy Stewart returns to his humble beginnings of Shinbone to attend the funeral of his friend, played by John Wayne.
As a journalist interviews Stewart, he reveals how his career got it's ultimate boost because he was known as "the man who shot Liberty Valance," a violent criminal. In a flashback, we see what really happened. Stewart was not the man who shot the criminal, but it was John Wayne, who witnessed the gunfight from an alleyway and managed to kill Liberty Valance with a shotgun at the same moment that Stewart fired his own gun. He did this despite the fact that he had lost the love of his life to Stewart. He was doing the right thing!
When the journalist hears the truth, he refuses to print it, stating, "When the legend becomes fact, we print the legend." That statement captures the essence of this classic film.
Without a doubt, this is a movie is a classic that should not be missed.
Summary of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stewart is a big-city lawyer who is determined to help a town get rid of its local bad guy. Wayne is the man who actually does it.Genre: Westerns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
"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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