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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
from Paramount
starring James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien
directed by John Ford

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Black & White
• Closed-captioned
• Dolby

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Another John Ford masterpiece
  This is perhaps second only to The Searchers in the many great films John Ford directed. Again starring John Wayne as well as the always excellent James Stewart, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin. Essentially its a western which shows the beginning of the end for the old west.
  If you watch this you need to remember that although this was made in 1962, and that John Ford had been making films since the early part of the 20th Century (1917). So this has a different feel to any sort of modern film. The pacing is... more info

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  What a great western. You can't get much better than this one. John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart together for get about it!

• A Film for American Studies Departments
  There is good reason to believe that the reviewer M. S. Anderson is as right as right can be. Having just edited an encyclopedia concerned with the Old West, I can confirm that the professorial class is keeping this movie alive. After several months of reading seemingly hundreds of worshipful citations of this routine film and especially of its signature cliché--the meaningless line about printing the legend when the legend becomes fact (as if newspapers routinely print the truth!)--I began watching... more info

• Print The Legend
  Stylistically, this is a very interesting film from director John Ford. The film begins with alot of colorful characterizations familiar to audiences with films as diverse as "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers". There's also alot of brutal realism which would anticipate the work of Sam Peckinpah. It's also interesting that Ford contrasts the traditional western as represented by John Wayne with the new west represented by James Stewart who made a series of "psychological" westerns in and around this time. Also... more info

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