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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. The truth about his deed will be revealed.
April 7, 1918 in Utah, USA
6 November 1895, Italy
21 October 1905, Westfield, New York, USA
28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
November 9, 1887 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
11 October 1892, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 January 1913, Ightham, Kent, England, UK
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
February 14, 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
10 March 1898, Lancashire, England, UK
February 09, 2006
Ford's purest and most sustained expression of the familiar themes of the passing of the Old West, the conflict between the untamed wilderness and the cultivated garden, and the power of myth.
April 29, 2013
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.
April 29, 2013
John Ford's last great film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is also one of the last classic Westerns to come out of Hollywood.
July 07, 2010
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.
April 29, 2013
The Citizen Kane of westerns.
May 09, 2005
A basically honest, rugged and mature saga has been sapped of a great deal of effect by an obvious, overlong and garrulous anticlimax.
December 09, 2010
The best film about bullying ever made.
April 24, 2009
A great film, rich in thought and feeling, composed in rhythms that vary from the elegiac to the spontaneous.
January 09, 2010
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.
April 29, 2013
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.
December 30, 2011
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.
