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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Western /
Music
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Director:
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John Ford
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Actors:
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John Qualen,
Andy Devine,
Vera Miles,
Ken Murray,
John Wayne,
James Stewart,
Lee Marvin,
Edmond O'Brien,
John Carradine,
Jeanette Nolan
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Duration:
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123 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)87.5
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Plot Summary:
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Senator Ranse Stoddard returns to the city of Shinbone in the Wild West, to open to to the burial of his friend, Tom Doniphon. To a journalist, who's wondering what the senator is doing in Shinbone, he tells how his career started as "the chap who swallow Unfettered Valance". As a counselor-at-law he came to Shinbone to bring law and knighthood a neat to the west nearby means of law books. When the stagecoach is held up by outlaws, he is savagely beaten through Liberty Valance. He survives the jump and is nursed via his future wife, Hallie. Hallie is being wooed by way of a local rancher, Tom... Doniphon. Ranse teaches the people of Shinbone to read and write, all the while bothersome to discover a way of bringing Valance to justice. He in fine takes up a gun and faces Valance in a ominous shootout...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
At the height of the JFK disputation, filmmaker and celebrity paranoiac Oliver Stone joked that his next silent picture would be 'The Men Who Rule the roost Liberty Valance'. Although not famous for his sense of wit, Stone should be congratulated coming up with a wordplay that works on a couple of levels, since not even the over of an elaborate cabal would justify a remake of John Ford's unimpeachable image. The first film to co-star genre giants James Stewart and John Wayne, The Man Who Try Independence Valance kicks fixed with the earlier's Release Stoddard returning to the borough of Shinbone to wait upon the exequies of his adherent Tom Doniphon (Wayne). With Stoddard now a successful congresswoman, it seems strange that he should have ridden across the b...
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