Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by John Ford

Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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Actor: Edmond O'Brien, James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles
Director: John Ford
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Running Time: 123 minutes
Release Date: 1997-02-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount

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Movie Review: Print The Legend
Summary: 5 Stars

Stylistically, this is a very interesting film from director John Ford. The film begins with alot of colorful characterizations familiar to audiences with films as diverse as "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers". There's also alot of brutal realism which would anticipate the work of Sam Peckinpah. It's also interesting that Ford contrasts the traditional western as represented by John Wayne with the new west represented by James Stewart who made a series of "psychological" westerns in and around this time. Also noteworthy is the presence of Lee Van Cleef who made his mark in the terrific Sergio Leone westerns in the sixties. What is Ford trying to say here? Probably sensing that his days behind the camera were nearing an end he probably understood that a re-evaluation was in order. The paradox here is that the traditional hero represented by John Wayne is left to lick his wounds in the darkness while the more neurotic Stewart is the supposed victor. The law of the gun is being replaced by the law book. Ford sees this as a good thing but not without a touch of poignancy. This is a film that some viewers may be confused by but taken in the context of the Ford canon it makes perfect sense.

Summary of Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

"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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