The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Name: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Director: John Ford
Genre: Western
Released: 1962
Rating: 4.3

John Ford • 123 min • 1962

Western

“Together for the first time”

John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine

Greg✦✦✦✦ (4)

Peer✦✦✦✦½ (4.5)

Gap: 0.5 ★

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Synopsis

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.