The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Together for the first time
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Production
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Budget
$3 200 000
Box office
$8 000 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Willis Goldbeck, John Ford
Camera operator
Composer
Cyril J. Mockridge
Artist
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Editing
Otho Lovering
Whole Team (34)
Whole Team (34)
Short description
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
What's left behind the scenes
- Woody Strode (1914-1994) often performed stunts himself – both because he was in excellent shape (before entering the film industry, he was a decathlete and football player), and because it was impossible at the time to find a Black stunt double for him. (A similar situation arose during filming of Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" in 1960.)
- Sergio Leone (1929-1989) called this film his favorite John Ford film and the only one in which "... Ford demonstrates a certain pessimism."
- In 2007, the U.S. National Film Preservation Council added this film to the National Film Registry for preservation in the Library of Congress.
- The actor who played the teenager, O.Z. Whitehead (1911-1998), was 50 years old.
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