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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance presents the Wild West as a flashback about a dead guy. This narrative framework is crucial to Ford's deconstruction of his own mythology (as Sergio Leone proclaimed, this is where Ford "learned pessimism"): the Western hero's fate was always already sealed because his history/fantasy was only ever a retroactive ...
Apr 8, 2023 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance isn’t quite a “revisionist” Western, although ironically the story itself is about historical revisionism. While it incorporates more political subtext than ...
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford starring James Stewart and John Wayne. The black-and-white film was released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck was adapted from a short story written by Dorothy M. Johnson.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins. 4,725 IMDb 8.1 2 h 3 min 1962. R. Western · Drama. This video is currently unavailable. to watch in your location.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, made by the 67-year-old Ford in 1962, is unmistakably the director's final statement on the West. In it, Ford gives us a capsule version of the world it took him ...
Aug 19, 2020 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance focuses on the love triangle between Stoddard, Doniphon and his girlfriend Hallie (Vera Miles, Psycho). After a brutal assault by Valance, Stoddard is saved by Doniphon and nursed back to health by Hallie, who form a romantic connection.
