The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford starring James Stewart and John Wayne. The blackandwhite 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. The supporting cast features Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond OBrien, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Woody Strode, Strother Martin, and Lee Van Cleef.

Senator Ransom Ranse Stoddard James Stewart and his wife Hallie Vera Miles arrive by train in the frontier town of Shinbone, in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon John Wayne. As they make their way toward the undertakers establishment to pay their respects to the deceased, a reporter Joseph Hoover and his editor, Maxwell Scott Carleton Young approach and ask Stoddard to explain why a United States Senator would make the long journey from Washington just to attend the funeral of a local rancher.Stoddards story flashes backyears to his arrival in Shinbone as a young, idealistic attorney. His stagecoach is robbed by a gang of outlaws led by Liberty Valance Lee Marvin. When Stoddard takes Valance to task for robbing a widow of her heirloom, he is brutally beaten. When Doniphon finds and brings him into town, restaurant owner Peter Ericson John Qualen, his wife Nora Jeanette Nolan, and employee Hallie tend to his injuries, and explain that Shinbones townsfolk are regularly victimized by Valance. Link Appleyard Andy Devine, the town marshal, has neither the courage nor the gunfighting skills to challenge Valance Doniphon who loves Hallie and plans to ask her to marry him is the only man willing to stand up to him. ........

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