The Man who killed Liberty Valance

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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