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A classic Western story in which James Stewart stars as an inept lawyer determined to rid the small town of Shinbone of public nuisance Lee Marvin. John Wayne appears in the title role competing with Stewart for the love of Vera Miles.

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ProducerWillis Goldbeck

EAN5014437880734

eBay Product ID (ePID)3950695

Product Key Features

ActorJohn Wayne, Edmond O'brien, Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, Ken Murray, Andy Devine, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, James Stewart, Woody Strode

Film/TV TitleThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

DirectorJohn Ford

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Croatian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Romanian\Slovenian\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish

Run Time118 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2005

FormatDVD

FeaturesBlack & White, Widescreen, Closed Caption, Theatrical Trailer, With Subtitles

GenreWesterns

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificateU

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Additional InformationIn 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.<BR><BR>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 signifies.

ScreenwriterWillis Goldbeck, James Warner Bellah

Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Digital Mono

Movie/TV TitleThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance