The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance overview

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Synopsis:

Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the dusty little frontier town where they met and married twenty-five years earlier. They have come back to attend the funeral of impoverished "nobody" Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). When a reporter asks why, Stoddard relates a film-long flashback.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: John Ford
  • Studio: Wills Goldbeck, Paramount
  • Year: 1962
  • Run Time: 119 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Western
  • Filmed in: B&W