the Man who killed Liberty Valance ( The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ) is a American Film of John Ford, left in 1962.

Synopsis

The senator Stoddard and his wife return in Shinbone, in the West, for the burial of Tom Doniphon. The local journalist benefits from it to interview it. Stoddard thus evokes the time when coldly graduate in right, it unloaded with the ideal to bring legality in the West. But little before its arrival with Shinbone, its diligence is attacked by Liberty Valance, a gangster without scruple of public notoriety. Stoddard does not obtain either the support of the sheriff, couard notable, nor of Doniphon, one of the rare people whom Valance fears.

Data sheet

• Title: the Man who killed Liberty Valance
• original Titer: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Realization: John Ford
• Scenario: James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck according to the history of Dorothy Mr. Johnson
• Production: Willis Goldbeck (Paramount)
• Music: Cyril J. Mockridge
• Photography: William Clothier
• Artistic director: Hall Pereira, Eddie Imazu
• Decorations: Darrell Silvera, Sam Comer
• Costumes: Edith Head
• Country of origin: the United States
• Format: black and white - 1,66:1 - 35 mm
• Kind: Western
• Lasted: 122 minutes
• Comings out date: April 22nd 1962 (the USA), October 3rd 1962 (France)

Distribution

• John Wayne: Tom Doniphon
• James Stewart: Ransom Stoddard
• Vera Miles: Hallie Stoddard
• Lee Marvin : Liberty Valance
• Edmond O' Brien: Dutton Peabody
• Andy Guesses: Marshall Link Appleyard
• Ken Murray: Doc. Willoughby
• John Carradine: Cassius Starbuckle
• Sleeve-board Nolan: Nora Ericsson
• John Qualen: Peter Ericsson
• Willis Bouchey: Jason Tully
• Carleton Young: Maxwell Scott
• Woody Strode: Pompey
• Denver Pyle: Amos Carruthers
• Strother Martin: Floyd
• Lee Van Cleef : Reese
• Robert F. Simon: Handy Strong
• O.Z. Whitehead: Herbert Carruthers
• Paul Birch: the mayor Winder

See too

• the Man who killed Liberty Valance on Internet Movie Database
• an analysis of the duel on the site of the CRDP of Lyon
• Critique of film on broad Ecran
• Fiche of the film club of Caen
• Etude of film the man who killed Liberty Valance

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