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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Western
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value morally complex Westerns about the uneasy transition from frontier justice to democratic law, shaped by memory, sacrifice, and the gap between truth and legend.
- Tone
- melancholic, bittersweet, contemplative
- Payoff
- reflection, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- law versus violence, mythmaking, sacrifice, civilization, unrequited love
- Setting
- late nineteenth-century frontier, isolated Western town and surrounding ranches
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