The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Wayne & James Stewart | |
Performer: | Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Andy Devine, Ken Murray, John Carradine, Jeanette Nolan, Strother Martin, John Qualen, Willis Bouchey, Carleton Young, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, O.Z. Whitehead & Paul Birch | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Otho Lovering | |
Screenwriting by | James Warner Bellah & Willis Goldbeck | |
Composition by | Cyril J. Mockridge | |
Art Direction by | Hal Pereira & Eddie Imazu | |
Produced by | Willis Goldbeck | |
Director of Photography: | William Clothier |
Entertainment Reviews:
With all the Ford requirements and the Ford mystique, including John Wayne and James Stewart off- setting each other's archetypal physiques, presences, worlds and implications; and Edmond O'Brien, at his uproariest.
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The Spectator
...Director John Ford's last masterpiece, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, features a killer cast...
USA Today
[The film offers] a bittersweet look at the closing of the frontier by focusing on two strikingly different men who help one town choose law and order over the chaos of the open range.
A.V. Club
It is often sentimental and stagy, but it is rarely boring... The screenplay is just the fable Mr. Ford needed for his farewell to the Western.
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Esquire Magazine
John Ford's last great film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is also one of the last classic Westerns to come out of Hollywood.
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Film4
Rating: 4/4 --
There is a purity to the John Ford style. His composition is classical. He arranges his characters within the frame to reflect power dynamics -- or sometimes to suggest a balance is changing.
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Chicago Sun-Times
John Ford and the writers have somewhat overplayed their hands. They have taken a disarmingly simple and affecting premise, developed it with craft and skill to a natural point of conclusion, and then have proceeded to run it into the ground.
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Variety
Product Description:
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 beliefs that had animated his earlier work. Shot on two soundstages because of a limited budget and Ford's poor health, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE blends a stripped-down look with an intentionally fractured, ambiguous narrative to stand as a haunting elegy for the fearless gunman, the endless wilderness, and the loss of freedom their vanishing betokens.
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 beliefs that had animated his earlier work. Shot on two soundstages because of a limited budget and Ford's poor health, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE blends a stripped-down look with an intentionally fractured, ambiguous narrative to stand as a haunting elegy for the fearless gunman, the endless wilderness, and the loss of freedom their vanishing betokens.
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