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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Upon the death of his best friend, Senator Tense Staddort, a well-known character who is the first one who introduced law in Europe and he kills every one of the outlaws, returns to the small town of Shinbon, where he meets a journalist whom he tells everything and reveals the secrets behind his actions.
May 27, 1912 in Ventura, California, USA
June 21, 1910 in Wolf Point, Montana, USA
15 June 1899, Panola, Illinois, USA
21 October 1905, Westfield, New York, USA
6 June 1894, Ireland
6 November 1895, Italy
August 1, 1897 in Georgia, USA
28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
26 March 1919, Kokomo, Indiana, USA
August 17, 1902 in London, England, UK
29 April 1897, New York City, New York, USA
November 28, 1888 in Ohio, USA
May 09, 2005
A basically honest, rugged and mature saga has been sapped of a great deal of effect by an obvious, overlong and garrulous anticlimax.
April 24, 2009
A great film, rich in thought and feeling, composed in rhythms that vary from the elegiac to the spontaneous.
January 09, 2010
The movie does not offer a clean-cut look at morality and heroes, who emerge from a reluctant position, but it does draw a definitive line between good and evil.
April 29, 2013
The Citizen Kane of westerns.
April 29, 2013
John Ford's last great film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is also one of the last classic Westerns to come out of Hollywood.
December 30, 2011
There is a purity to the John Ford style. His composition is classical. He arranges his characters within the frame to reflect power dynamics -- or sometimes to suggest a balance is changing.
December 09, 2010
The best film about bullying ever made.
July 07, 2010
John Ford and the writers have somewhat overplayed their hands. They have taken a disarmingly simple and affecting premise, developed it with craft and skill to a natural point of conclusion, and then have proceeded to run it into the ground.
February 09, 2006
Ford's purest and most sustained expression of the familiar themes of the passing of the Old West, the conflict between the untamed wilderness and the cultivated garden, and the power of myth.
April 29, 2013
There's much to say about it; the simplest is that it's both the most romantic of Westerns and the greatest American political movie.
April 29, 2013
A solid, if overrated, Ford western, one with its share of cliches and predictability. It's still fascinating to watch Wayne and Stewart deal with hellion Marvin in a changing West.