The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

drama film, Western film, revisionist Western, flashback film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 1,295 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A senator tells the true story of how he became a legend in the old West. It involves a ruthless outlaw and a quiet rancher who come into conflict over justice.

classicseriousreflectiveslow-burnnostalgicmelancholiccharacter-drivenstark

What happens

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance () is a 1962 black and white American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and James Stewart in their first film together. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck was adapted from a 1953 short story written by Dorothy M. Johnson. The supporting cast features Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Woody Strode, Strother Martin, and Lee Van Cleef. In 2007, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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