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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (/ ˈ v æ l ə n s /) is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and James Stewart.The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck was adapted from a 1953 short story written by Dorothy M. Johnson.
Stewart and Wayne had worked together in two previous Westerns: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and How the West Was Won, both released in 1962. While filming the sequence in the doctor's office, both Stewart and Wayne repeatedly muffed their lines over a long series of takes, until director Don Siegel finally pleaded with them to try harder.
One of the film's most notable scenes is a four-minute two-shot of Stewart and Widmark bantering on a river bank about money, women, and the Comanche problem. [5] Ford shot the lengthy scene with his crew waist-deep in the chilly river. [6] [5] The film was shot at the Alamo Village, the movie set originally created for John Wayne's The Alamo ...
The Stewart family in 1918 Stewart (right) outside his family's hardware store, 1930 With Joshua Logan (c.), 1930. James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, [2] the eldest child and only son born to Elizabeth Ruth (née Jackson; 1875–1953) and Alexander Maitland Stewart (1872–1962). [3]
Wayne in The Big Trail (1930) Wayne as "Singin' Sandy" in Riders of Destiny (1933) Betty Field and Wayne in The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Publicity still of Wayne and Nancy Olson for Big Jim McLain (1952) Wayne in The Comancheros (1961) With James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) On the set of In Harm's Way (1964)
James Stewart (1908 – 1997) was a prolific American actor who appeared in a variety of film roles in Hollywood, primarily of the Golden Age of Hollywood. From the beginning of his film career in 1934 through his final theatrical project in 1991, Stewart appeared in more than 92 films, television programs, and short subjects.
By April 1961, Wayne and Spencer Tracy had confirmed their plans to play Generals Sherman and Grant for a segment directed by John Ford, and James Stewart had been signed as well. [15] Other roles would go to Gregory Peck , Debbie Reynolds , Russ Tamblyn and Carroll Baker , while Henry Hathaway and George Marshall would also direct from a ...
Bandolero! is a 1968 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen [3] and starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine, Will Geer, and Clint Ritchie. The story centers on two brothers on the run from a posse, led by a local sheriff who wants to arrest the runaways and free a hostage whom they took ...