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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792106982
ISBN: 0792106989
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: February 19, 1997
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 10472
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1962
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
'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
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A parody
This is an unintentional parody of the Western movie.The cliches, stereotypes, corny lines, and macho nonsense are present in abundance.There are signs of trouble from the beginning, when we learn immediately that there will be a flashback: Jimmy Stewart is shouting his lines.Later, John Wayne swaggers and sniggers, Andy Devine whimpers and attempts to be amusing, Edmund O'Brien does an awful drunk act, things are rowdy in the local saloon...well, you understand if you're over 13.Watch how ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the best
One of the best John Wayne movies, and Stewart is miscast, but still does a fine job.
Rating: - "Nothing is too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance!"
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 ... Read More
Rating: - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
ESSENTIAL MOVIE!!! One of the greatest westerns ever filmed stars James Stewart & John Wayne & was directed by the incomparable John Ford. The character of the film's title isn't made clear until near the end of the movie. The film is shot in black & white which fits its moody atmosphere, it's like western/film noir.
The movie opens with Ranson Stoddard (James Stewart), known as Rance to his friends, & his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), returning to the town where they had met ... Read More
Rating: - A Ford classic
Critically panned on it's release, this John Ford film is now considered a classic.John Wayne, James Stewart and a really vicious performance by Lee Marvin.The cornerstone of any western/John Ford collection.
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