The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and James Stewart.

It is a western about a lawyer full of ideals that are travelling without arms to the Wild West. If he settles in a small town he is confronted with a murderous gang that terrorizes the town. The story is told in the form of flashbacks. The film is based on a short story by Dorothy m. Johnson.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Lawyer Ransom "Rance" Stoddard wants to settle in the town of Shinbone in the Wild West of the USA Stoddard is an idealist who believes in the law. He refuses to carry a weapon for that reason. As he travels to the small town in which he travels, the Stagecoach robbery. When Stoddard oppose, he is beaten up and left for dead. Ranger Tom Doniphon and find the unfortunate lawyer and nurse him. Stoddard Later hears that the gang is led by the infamous Liberty Valance. The gang of Valance terrorizes Shinbone and environment, where they encounter little opposition, certainly not by the cowardly Marshall Link Appleyard. One of the few who oppose Doniphon and Stoddard as a wimp who considers is that no weapon dares to wear. Stoddard in turn sees little difference between Valence and Doniphon. Both men use violence without thinking about alternatives. Stoddard settles in Shinbone, and soon he opens a school for the children and the largely illiterate population of the town to learn to read and write. Hallie also goes on the school. Meanwhile, the city regularly harass, which Stoddard Valance the target of Vallance's bullying. It soon becomes apparent that Valance works for the big cattle farmers and large landowners in the area. They have an interest in the area is not a u.s. State. That means that there is law and order and that is a threat to their business interests. When there are two smaller farmers by Valance are being killed, the situation begins to escalate. If the Government requires to send two delegates from Shinbone, the town held an election. Although trying to disrupt things again, be Valance Stoddard and the editor of the local paper chosen. The situation spiraling out of control as the editor-in-Chief then let save half dead Valance. Stoddard is lured out of his tent and looks at the challenge of Valance to a duel. To the surprise of the inhabitants of Shinbone shoot the total untrained Stoddard his opponent, Liberty Valance, death. A bullet from the weapon injures Stoddard however. He is lovingly taken care of by Hallie. When Hallie Doniphon sees this, he knows that he is no longer his girlfriend and bedrinkt. Stoddard is seen as a hero and was nominated as a member representing the State in Washington. He wants to refuse this honor, however, because of the blood that sticks to his hands. It is back in the reality that Doniphon. When Stoddard and Valance met and fired on each other, shot dead with a rifle from an alley Doniphon Vallance. The bang of the gun was drowned out by the almost simultaneous gun fire by Stoddard and Valance. Stoddard let himself and is elected to the House of representatives. He marries Hallie and later senator. As Stoddard returns years later in the town to attend the funeral of Doniphon, he tells his story to the local newspaper. Who refuse to place the story, however, with the words: "this is the West, if the legend is a fact, then place the legend in the newspaper." ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == The man who shot Liberty Valance is seen as one of the best film of Director John Ford. The movie itself forms the connection between the classic western of the forties and the violent spaghetti western of the 1960s, Ford and John Wayne westerns made in the former periods in which heroic white cowboys, driven by a desire for adventure, the Indians driven out and the civilization brought. Serge Leone westerns in 1960s was responsible for a number of which every moral seemed disappeared and the bloody violence as tomato sauce of the cloth splattered. In 1960 as a western The Magnificent Seven had already shown that the time of the conscientious gunslinger was waning. A Fistfull of dollars by Leone in 1964 would the West for good by robbing his innocence. The man who shot Liberty Valance balances between two eras. Good and evil are still ones, but it's been less clear who is good and who is evil. Just the names of Liberty Valance and Ransom Stoddard suggest that Ford mocking its own genre. Liberty means ' freedom ', and Ransom ' ransom '. It's like Stoddard ransom pay for the freedom of his city. Although John Wayne his character Doniphon still plays as the trusty old cowboy, the Luigi, it is clear that he no longer fits in the West. He is scrapped, his girlfriend has left him and to have the honor to Valance shot goes to the man he actually despised. His role is played out. The era of the politician has come. Shinbone grows into a modern city with shops and schools and the bandits are like the livestock farmers disappeared. The character of the film is already much more pessimistic and more obscure than earlier Ford Westerns. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Different from other films of John Ford in this period was The man who shot Liberty Valance released in black and white. The reason for this was probably a lack of money. Paramount at that time had to cut back and color films were now once more expensive. Ford had previously worked with John Wayne and James Stewart but the cooperation between the three men was not about roses. Although Ford was good friends with Wayne and made many movies with him, Ford could not resist to harass his protagonist. Wayne he made hellish by putting the emphasis on the fact that Stewart had been a real war hero and not Wayne. On the other hand he called Stewart a racist when the last with joking said that one of the African American characters had some way of Uncle Remus. Ford used this kind of psychological games more often for its protagonists to turn to greater achievements.
 * 2 Cast
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 * James Stewart -Ransom Stoddard
 * John Wayne -Tom Doniphon
 * Lee Marvin – Liberty Valance
 * Vera Miles – Hallie