The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance)
(USA, 1962) [B/N, 123 m.].
Género: Western revisionista
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: John Ford.
Argumento: Dorothy M. Johnson (relato).
Guión: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck.
Fotografía: William H. Clothier (B&W).
Música: Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman (no acreditado).
Producción: John Ford, Willis Goldbeck.
Productora: Paramount Pictures / John Ford Productions.
Sinopsis: Un anciano senador relata a un periodista la verdadera historia del hombre que mató a Liberty Valance. La acción comienza cuando un joven abogado, Ranse Stoddard, llega a Shinbone, un pequeño pueblo del oeste, para ejercer la abogacía e imponer la justicia en aquellas tierras. Nada más llegar, es robado y golpeado brutalmente por el temido pistolero Liberty Valance. (FILMAFFINITY)
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"Quizá el Western de Ford más redondo (...) Obra maestra" (Javier Ocaña: Cinemanía)
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"Obra memorable, que revoluciona el género mediante la transgresión de sus propios códigos. Una reflexión de lirismo inaudito, de desatado romanticismo, acerca del significado del honor, de la distancia entre realidad y leyenda, todo ello retratando a unos personajes crepusculares y atormentados, repletos de matices. Una maravilla" (Miguel Ángel Palomo: Diario El País)
James Stewart interpreta a un abogado que resulta herido tras el ataque a una diligencia. Es un hombre con convicciones, y jura atrapar al forajido responsable del robo. Pero él es un ciudadano civilizado que no entiende de pistolas, y necesita la ayuda de alguien al que no le cueste apretar el gatillo. El hombre adecuado es un forzudo, tan bravucón como implacable con los puños y con el revólver. El problema es que el malvado se llama Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), y es uno de los más temidos del Oeste. La atractiva mujer interpretada por Vera Miles creará un conflicto entre el torpe Stewart y el duro Wayne.
Aunque al principio no fue elogiada por la crítica ni considerada por el público, esta película se ha convertido en uno de los títulos más significativos del maestro del western, John Ford. Su tono crepuscular, el contraste entre salvaje oeste y civilización, el explicar cómo se forjan las leyendas, configura una historia de rara belleza. Otras de las películas de Ford convertidas ya en hitos del cine son La diligencia (1939), El hombre tranquilo (1952) o Centauros del desierto (1956). Es una película cumbre absoluta, que cuenta con un magnífico reparto de especialistas en el género. Tiene tensión, mezcla de emociones y, sobre todo, el brillante retrato de unos personajes peculiares y atractivos que Ford hacía como nadie (DeCine21).
- Jorge Mauro de Pedro: "El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance", Miradas de Cine.
AMG SYNOPSIS: Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the dusty little frontier town where they met and married twenty-five years earlier. They have come back to attend the funeral of impoverished "nobody" Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). When a reporter asks why, Stoddard relates a film-long flashback. He recalls how, as a greenhorn lawyer, he had run afoul of notorious gunman Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), who worked for a powerful cartel which had the territory in its clutches. Time and again, "pilgrim" Stoddard had his hide saved by the much-feared but essentially decent Doniphon. It wasn't that Doniphon was particularly fond of Stoddard; it was simply that Hallie was in love with Stoddard, and Doniphon was in love with Hallie and would do anything to assure her happiness, even if it meant giving her up to a greenhorn. When Liberty Valance challenged Stoddard to a showdown, everyone in town was certain that the greenhorn didn't stand a chance. Still, when the smoke cleared, Stoddard was still standing, and Liberty Valance lay dead. On the strength of his reputation as the man who shot Valance, Stoddard was railroaded into a political career, in the hope that he'd rid the territory of corruption. Stoddard balked at the notion of winning an election simply because he killed a man-until Doniphon, in strictest confidence, told Stoddard the truth: It was Doniphon, not Stoddard, who shot down Valance. Stoddard was about to reveal this to the world, but Doniphon told him not to. It was far more important in Doniphon's eyes that a decent, honest man like Stoddard become a major political figure; Stoddard represented the "new" civilized west, while Doniphon knew that he and the West he represented were already anachronisms. Thus Stoddard went on to a spectacular political career, bringing extensive reforms to the state, while Doniphon faded into the woodwork. His story finished, the aged Stoddard asks the reporter if he plans to print the truth. The reporter responds by tearing up his notes. "This is the West, sir, " the reporter explains quietly. "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Dismissed as just another cowboy opus at the time of its release, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance has since taken its proper place as one of the great Western classics. It questions the role of myth in forging the legends of the West, while setting this theme in the elegiac atmosphere of the West itself, set off by the aging Stewart and Wayne. -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: In his elegy to the Western hero, John Ford reveals the facts while printing the western legend. To examine what was at stake in transforming the western wilderness into a civilized garden, Ford sets up the opposition between James Stewart's Eastern lawyer Ranse Stoddard and Lee Marvin's brutal outlaw Liberty Valance, with John Wayne's archetypal hero Tom Doniphon forced to intervene. While Tom takes Stoddard's side in favor of the greater good, the spread of civilization comes at his own expense. Stoddard has to come to terms with the fact that the legendary words that fuel his success erase the truth of the genuine charismatic heroes; as a place of literary and cinematic legend, the West has no room for such veracity. Shot in black-and-white with few exteriors, Liberty Valance's melancholy nocturnal atmosphere matches the story's suggestion that the West's glory days have passed. Though not as highly regarded when it was released, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance has since come to be seen as one of Ford's greatest Westerns, and a key predecessor to such late '60s-'70s Western eulogies as The Wild Bunch (1969) and The Shootist (1976). -- Lucia Bozzola
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