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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 2h 3m PG-13
Western
,
Drama
8.1
95%
92%
78%
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A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
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Directed By
John Ford
Written By
James Warner Bellah
,
Willis Goldbeck
,
Dorothy M. Johnson
Studio
Paramount
,
John Ford Productions
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Cast of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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
Lee Van Cleef
Reese
Robert F. Simon
Handy Strong
O. Z. Whitehead
Herbert Carruthers
Paul Birch
Mayor Winder
Joseph Hoover
Charlie Hasbrouck - Reporter for 'The Star'
Charles Akins
Townsman (uncredited)
John Barton
Townsman (uncredited)
Rudy Bowman
Townsman (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Townsman (uncredited)
Jerry Brown
Townsman (uncredited)
George Bruggeman
Townsman (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Townsman (uncredited)
Russell Custer
Townsman (uncredited)
Duke Fishman
Townsman (uncredited)
Fritz Ford
Townsman (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Townsman (uncredited)
Jack Kenny
Townsman (uncredited)
Richard LaMarr
Townsman (uncredited)
Jack Lilley
Townsman (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt
Townsman (uncredited)
Jack Tornek
Townsman (uncredited)
Sid Troy
Townsman (uncredited)
Ralph Volkie
Townsman (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Townsman (uncredited)
Blackie Whiteford
Townsman (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Townswoman (uncredited)
Helen Gibson
Townswoman (uncredited)
Eva Novak
Townswoman (uncredited)
Dorothy Phillips
Townswoman (uncredited)
Mario Arteaga
Henchman (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward
Henchman (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Henchman (uncredited)
Jack Williams
Henchman (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Gambler (uncredited)
William Henry
Gambler (uncredited)
Danny Borzage
Musician (uncredited)
Dick Cherney
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Lars Hensen
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Tex Holden
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Jack Perrin
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Robert Robinson
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Rudy Sooter
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Statehood Council Member (uncredited)
King Mojave
Statehood Council Member (uncredited)
Shug Fisher
Kaintuck (uncredited)
Ben Frommer
Cantina Bartender (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
Jack - Bartender (uncredited)
Phil Schumacher
Bartender (uncredited)
Tom Hennesy
Buck Langhorn (uncredited)
Bryan 'Slim' Hightower
Shotgun (uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
Clute Dumfries (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
Barfly (uncredited)
Tom Smith
Barfly (uncredited)
Cap Somers
Barfly (uncredited)
Eddie Jauregui
Drummer (uncredited)
Charles Morton
Drummer (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
Party Member at Convention (uncredited)
Anna Lee
Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
Ted Mapes
Highpockets (uncredited)
Montie Montana
Cowboy on Pinto Pony (uncredited)
Slim Talbot
Cowboy (uncredited)
Bob Morgan
Roughrider (uncredited)
Charles Seel
Election Council President (uncredited)
Bud Cokes
Townsman (uncredited)
Jane Crowley
Townswoman (uncredited)
Larry Finley
Bar X Man (uncredited)
Finn Zirzow
Cowboy (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Reviews
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Along with The Searchers, it represents John Ford at his most accomplished. And it is one of the best Westerns Hollywood has ever produced.
Filmsite
Tim Dirks
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) was another nostalgic and memorable B/W John Ford-directed film about the passing of the Old West and the rise of civilization - it was his last great film.
New York Times
A.H. Weiler
A basically honest, rugged and mature saga has been sapped of a great deal of effect by an obvious, overlong and garrulous anticlimax.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Contactmusic.com
Christopher Null
The Citizen Kane of westerns.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
A remarkably complex and nuanced take on the Western.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Merely one of the greatest Westerns ever made.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
There's much to say about it; the simplest is that it's both the most romantic of Westerns and the greatest American political movie.
Variety
Variety Staff
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.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A great film, rich in thought and feeling, composed in rhythms that vary from the elegiac to the spontaneous.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Arguably, the best John Ford film ever, certainly one the very best, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an American classic.
National Review
Kyle Smith
Long before Watergate-era cynicism about the media set in, we were told with a wink by perhaps the West's principal mythologist to be skeptical about everything we had been told.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
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.
Movie Views
Ryan Cracknell
The best film about bullying ever made.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Steve Crum
Superb John Ford--a western classic--with strong Wayne, Stewart, Marvin in tow.
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
John Ford regularly made such clear-eyed, unsentimental assessments of the Old West and the lies that forged its mythology that one may wonder how the concept of a "revisionist western" ever took root when the original was already so bleak.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
...an appropriate tribute to the passing of the Old West, and a fitting salute to the films of screen legend John Ford.
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
The movie does not offer a clean-cut look at morality and heroes, who emerge from a reluctant position, but it does draw a definitive line between good and evil.
TV Guide
A solid, if overrated, Ford western, one with its share of cliches and predictability. It's still fascinating to watch Wayne and Stewart deal with hellion Marvin in a changing West.
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