The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
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Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
123 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Ford

Written By:
James Warner Bellah
Willis Goldbeck

Actors:
John Wayne ..... Tom Doniphon
James Stewart ..... Ransom Stoddard
Vera Miles ..... Hallie Stoddard
Lee Marvin ..... Liberty Valance
Edmond O'Brien ..... Dutton Peabody
Andy Devine ..... Marshal Link Appleyard
Ken Murray ..... Doc Willoughby
John Carradine ..... Maj. Cassius Starbuckle
Jeanette Nolan ..... Nora Ericson
John Qualen ..... Peter Ericson
Willis Bouchey ..... Jason Tully - Conductor
Carleton Young ..... Maxwell Scott
Woody Strode ..... Pompey
Denver Pyle ..... Amos Carruthers
Strother Martin ..... Floyd

Synopsis:

Senator Ranse Stoddard returns to the city of Shinbone in the Wild West, to go to the funeral of his friend, Tom Doniphon. To a journalist, who's wondering what the senator is doing in Shinbone, he tells how his career started as 'the man who shot Liberty Valance'. As a lawyer he came to Shinbone to bring law and order to the west by means of law books. When the stagecoach is held up by outlaws, he is savagely beaten by Liberty Valance. He survives the attack and is nursed by his future wife, Hallie. Hallie is being wooed by a local rancher, Tom Doniphon. Ranse teaches the people of Shinbone to read and write, all the while trying to find a way of bringing Valance to justice. He finally takes up a gun and faces Valance in a menacing shootout...

When Senator Ransom Stoddard returns home to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon, he recounts to a local newspaper editor the story behind it all. He had come to town many years before, a lawyer by profession. The stage was robbed on its way in by the local ruffian, Liberty Valance, and Stoddard has nothing to his name left save a few law books. He gets a job in the kitchen at the Ericson's restaurant and there meets his future wife, Hallie. The territory is vying for Statehood and Stoddard is selected as a representative over Valance, who continues terrorizing the town. When he destroys the local newspaper office and attacks the editor, Stoddard calls him out, though the conclusion is not quite as straightforward as legend would have it.

The film begins in 1910 when a successful aging U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife of twenty-five years Hallie (Vera Miles) return to the small western town Shinbone, where they met, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) a man known in the town as a good man but undistinguished.When a young local reporter presses Stoddard for an interview about why he has come to the funeral of a nobody like Doniphon, Stoddard begins a story that relates the history of the film in flashback. Stoddard tells us how when he came to the town as young newly-graduated attorney at law he was bullied by a local tough outlaw named Liberty Valence (Lee Marvin), a gunman employed by the local cattle cartel directed to keep the town in line so that the barons could monopolize the local resources to insure their beef industry. Many times Stoddard is aided by the intervening Doniphon when threatened by Liberty Valence.Doniphon doesn't really like Stoddard but he helps the tenderfoot he has nicknamed pilgrim for the simple reason that Hallie loves Stoddard for his sensitivity and Doniphon loves Hallie and wants to make her happy at whatever cost. When Valence challenges Stoddard to a gun fight in the street, everyone in town believes that its the end of the lawyer, but amazingly, even wounded, Stoddard rises triumphant. When Stoddard is unanimously elected to a political career so he may clear the land of other outlaws, he defers, but then Doniphon comes forth to tell him that on that fateful night Valence fell due to a shot Doniphon fired from across the street.When Stoddards ethical ire rises and he moves to tell the world the truth, Doniphon convinces him to keep the truth a secret and take a leading role to change the ways of the old West. Stoddard goes on to a stellar career making sweeping changes in the way the land is governed and Doniphon fades away.As Stoddard finishes his story, the reporter destroys his notes and insists that the myth of the West is more important to sustain than the sterilized truth, although the truth has freed the demons Stoddard and Hallie have carried with them since their time with Doniphon.

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