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| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 
 enlarge | Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'brien
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 5145
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 123
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.7 x 0.7
MPN: PARD061144D
ISBN: 0792172663
UPC: 097360611441
EAN: 9780792172666
ASIN: B00005ASGG
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1962
Release Date: June 5, 2001
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 A Ford classic May 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Critically panned on it's release, this John Ford film is now considered a classic. John Wayne, James Stewart and a really vicious performance by Lee Marvin. The cornerstone of any western/John Ford collection.
wonderful classic Western that is also psychologically real May 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I remember seeing this when it came out, and haven't seen it in its entirety since. It really brought me back to that time, when there were so many Westerns yet so few memorable ones. This one really sticks in the mind, not only for the acting, but for the situation and its ideals.
Jimmy Stewart arrives as a young man determined to make his mark, but is brutalized by Lee Marvin. He is rescued by a local heavy, a cynical but just John Wayne, who takes him to "his girl", the wonderfully subtle and beautiful actress Vera Miles. I just loved these male characters, who are drawn together yet are also competitors, almost alternative futures of the West. Wayne preaches armed resistance, Stewart a legal/political one. In a way, they trade places, as the West is won, generating a myth. It is truly masterful and spellbinding, even moving.
Warmly recommended. My kids will love this ancient film as sharing with us oldies.
One of the best westerns and one of John Wayne's best April 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the great westerns and one of Wayne's best. Lee Marvin is perfect as Liberty Valance. Come to think of it, Stewart's not bad either.
However,this is no shoot em up - it's a western with a message. Spoiler Warning! If you haven't seen the movie, read no more.
The man who, ostensibly, shot Liberty Valance, gets the girl and is elected to Congress to boot. The man who actually did shoot Liberty dies in obscurity.
Sometimes, life is like that.
limits of law and democracy April 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are bad films, good films and a few masterpieces. This is one of the few.
We see: Liberty, economy, democracy... good words, great ideals, but from time to time, until now, these principles must be defended with a gun, a Colt 45: an human limitation, but resigning is poor. Not in vain stock market has the terms "Bull or Bear market". For me this signifies behind richness and wealth, there are an animal, irrational but unavoidable shadow at less until now: in this superb film that animal are Liberty Valance, and he menaces democracy, but there was an ignored man who killed him.
Ramson Stoddart is a good, able lawyer, he wants people in the Far West can be able to read, schools, laws.
But there's no law excepting these of the revolver. Tom Doniphon doesn't know much about paper laws, but he's strong and speedy with his gun. He knows the beautiful Hallie doesn't love him, and feeling all that, he kills the psychopatic murderer who is Liberty Valance, the gunman at service of the big, oppressive cattlemen, and with that fact, he brings liberty, democracy while he retires voluntarily to a lone, sad existence: no doubt, democracy has a price. Doniphon is a tragic figure, perhaps he don't understand ver well what he has done and why, but he's essentially a good man who believes in justice.
Ageless January 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
They arrive in town for the funeral of a man who was the rock on which the waves beat but at the time, nobody noticed much; the steady, tough but true foundation leaned on by almost all of them at one time or another and taken largely for granted; a man who, though seemingly out of character for a person possessed of such strength himself, stepped aside to let others pass to take credit after the work was done. Broken at last from within himself, recognizing unconquerable personal forces from people he loves or respects for the common cause necessary to tame the frontier, he knows he can never hope to win or make happy what he desires most - Hallie the waitress .
One of the first thrills the viewer sees are the ice blue eyes of Lee Marvin, enhanced threefold by the neckerchief covering the bottom half of his face during the holdup that starts the story off. Even though the film is in black and white, the color of those piercing, deadly eyes is readily apparent. Lee Marvin did a splendid job as the outlaw, Liberty Valance - I can think of no other actor better suited to compliment the characters of John Wayne as Tom Donovan, a rough and ready settler ready to defend his property by the means at hand - which means his gun, which is all the law he has ever counted on; and James Stewart as Rance Stoddard, the Eastern Attorney who knows things must change if they are to have a community.
One of the best of the best, and once seen, it's one you won't forget. So for someone searching for an old movie, one that won't disappoint no matter how much time passes, this is one to view.
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