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THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE opens. Written by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck, from a 1953 short story by Dorothy M. Johnson. An idealistic lawyer (James Stewart), an enigmatic cowboy (John Wayne) & snarling gunslinger (Lee Marvin) become symbolic totems in John Ford's elegiac ode to the passing of the Old West & the stuff that legends are made of.
