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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Yogerst, Chris

Paperback

Series: Reel West

Film StudiesGeneral Board Games

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0826368387
ISBN13: 9780826368386
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.63 Width: 4.96 Depth: 7.01
Language: English
A new offering in the nascent Reel West film history series that focuses on that quintessentially American cinematic art form, the western.

Few lines of movie dialogue have had greater impact than the most famous line from John Ford's 1962 masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Although critics of the day did not realize its magnitude, with time The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance has become cemented in our popular culture. This film connects to nearly every Western before or after, from Ford's own Stagecoach (1939) to Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992).

Coming six years after The Searchers, Ford's other great late-career masterpiece, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance may be even more archetypal of a changing West. In this first-ever book on the subject, Chris Yogerst unpacks one of the signature films of the post-classic Western period and one of the greatest works of director John Ford and actors John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, and Woody Strode.

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