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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance uses a long flashback to tell the story of Senator Ramson Stoddard, who returns to the frontier village where his political rise originated to attend the funeral of his friend Tom Doniphon. During a meeting with a reporter, the politician reveals for the first time how, many years earlier, he began his career by ...
Ransom Stoddard, senior U.S. Senator, travels by train to the tiny western town of Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon, a man whom the press has never heard of. The Senator's political career has been built on his killing of the villainous Liberty Valance. We flashback to Ranse's arrival in the town as a fresh-faced attorney as he tells ...