The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart and John Wayne. The black-and-white 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. In 2007 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Elderly U.S. Senator Ransom "Rance" Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive by train in the small western... town of Shinbone, to attend the funeral of an apparent nobody, a local rancher named Tom Doniphon. As they pay their respects to the dead man at the undertaker's establishment, the senator is interrupted with a request for a newspaper interview. Stoddard grants the request and Hallie goes off with a friend to visit a burned-down house with obvious significance to her. As the interview with the local reporter begins, the film flashes back several decades into the past as Stoddard reflects on his first arrival at Shinbone by stagecoach to establish a law practice.
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| Release date: | 1962 |
| Directed by: | John Ford |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Producer: | John Ford, Willis Goldbeck |
| Editor: | Otho Lovering |
| Music by: | Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography: | William H. Clothier |
| Screenplay by: | James Warner Bellah, Dorothy M. Johnson, Willis Goldbeck |
| Estimated budget: | $3,200,000 |
| Genre: | Western, Action |