The man who shot Liberty Valance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The man who shot Liberty Valance |
| Original title | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Ford |
| script |
James Warner Bellah Willis Goldbeck |
| production | Willis Goldbeck John Ford |
| music |
Cyril J. Mockridge Alfred Newman |
| camera | William H. Clothier |
| cut | Otho Lovering |
| occupation | |
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The man who shot Liberty Valance (original title: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ) is an American late-western shot by John Ford in 1962 with John Wayne , James Stewart and Lee Marvin in black and white. It was based on a story of the same name by Dorothy M. Johnson , in which an idealistic young lawyer fights for law and order in the uncivilized West.
action
Senator Stoddard, who began his career in the small town of Shinbone decades ago, returns with his wife Hallie for the funeral of an old friend, Tom Doniphon. There are only a few people in the village who still knew the old rancher, as he had withdrawn more and more to his ranch in recent years. Stoddard tells journalists who have become curious about the story of their acquaintance.
As a young idealist, Stoddard, fresh from college and coming from the civilized East of the USA, travels to the still somewhat wild west. Shortly before the city, his stagecoach is robbed by the dreaded bandit Liberty Valance and his people. The naive Stoddard takes on Valance, who brutally whips him. Doniphon picks up Stoddard lying on the roadside and brings him to Shinbone, where the host couple Ericson and their young daughter Hallie take care of the injured man. The small town lives in fear of Valance, as the local sheriff Link Appleyard cannot stand up to the criminal in bravery and gunsmithing. The only man in the area whom Valance has respect for is Tom Doniphon, who wants to stay out of the conflict as much as possible.
After his recovery, Stoddard opens a law office in Shinbone and gives school lessons for the villagers to finally learn to read and write. Valance feels threatened by the entry of civilization into Shinbone and clashes with the young lawyer several times. However, Stoddard is not intimidated and thereby wins the respect of the villagers. However, he rejects the violent fight with Valance, instead he tries to rely on education and paragraphs. Doniphon, on the other hand, considers Stoddard's non-violent stance against the bandit to be naive and deadly. However, Doniphon also has to realize that Hallie - with whom he fell in love and for whom he is growing his house - and Stoddard fall in love, because his help gives her her first education and goes from being a waitress to a teacher.
When the Shinbone residents are asked to elect two delegates to a Territory Assembly, Stoddard is appointed on Doniphon's advice. Stoddard wants to continue developing the territory into a state, which is a thorn in the side of the bandit Valance and some cattle barons. Nevertheless, the residents manage a successful election process, at the end of which Stoddard and the local newspaper editor Peabody are elected. Valance then asks Stoddard to a shooting duel, which he accepts despite little shooting experience - and although Doniphon urgently advises him to leave the city. Peabody is beaten almost to death by Valance's men in his newspaper office. Stoddard then faces the bandit on the street, but seems hopelessly inferior. A bullet hits the bandit fatally, and Stoddard is hailed as "the man who shot Liberty Valance". In fact, Valance did not fall in a fair duel with the miserable shooter Stoddard. Rather, he was shot from ambush by Doniphon to save Stoddard's life, but no one noticed.
Doniphon is silent about the incident, only reporting it to Stoddard a few weeks later at the state convention. On this Stoddard is elected as a delegate to Washington, the myth thus created made possible for him the political rise to the highest offices. He also marries Hallie, while Doniphon burns down the house he was working on for his planned wedding to Hallie.
At the end of his story, Stoddard explains that reporters are welcome to publish the story of the real "man who shot Liberty Valance." But they refuse because the lie has already become an independent myth. A pensive Stoddard travels back to Washington with his wife after the funeral. To the delight of his wife Hallie, he considers retiring from politics and returning to Shinbone as a lawyer. Stoddard thanks the train conductor for the convenience of the trip, who replies that nothing is good enough for the man who shot Liberty Valance.
Remarks
Like many major westerns, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance tells of the birth of modern America and is set during the transition period between pioneering America and civilized America:
Doniphon kills Valance, but the citizens wrongly attribute his act to Stoddard. Stoddard does not clear up this mistake and thus allows that his career , and with it the "new world", is based on a lie. In the end, the editor-in-chief of the local newspaper refuses to publish the truth revealed to him by Stoddard. He speaks one of the most famous dialogue sentences in film history: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend!" (If the legend becomes the truth, print the legend!) In the German dubbed version, the sentence is not heard in this form, but it says: “We want to preserve our legends. They have come true for us. "
The film was released in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 21, 1962, and it was first broadcast on television on February 2, 1970 in the evening program of ZDF .
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created for the cinema premiere at Berliner Synchron, directed by Klaus von Wahl, based on a dialog book by Bodo Francke . This original version has been cut in several places in order to streamline the plot. In earlier German TV broadcasts, for example, there was usually no scene in which some of the older residents explain what democracy is in the context of a school lesson. Decades later, two different reconstructions were made, one for ZDF at Arena Synchron and one later for the DVD at EuroSync GmbH. In both, the actors (necessarily) have different dubbing voices than in the theatrical version.
In the German version, Marshal Link Appleyard became Sheriff Link Appleyard.
| role | actor | German Voice actor | Voice actors new scenes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ransomware Stoddard | James Stewart | Siegmar Schneider | Frank-Otto Schenk (ZDF), Bodo Wolf (DVD) |
| Tom Doniphon | John Wayne | Arnold Marquis | |
| Hallie Stoddard | Vera Miles | Ilse Kiewiet | |
| Liberty Valance | Lee Marvin | Hans Wiegner | |
| Dutton Peabody, editor | Edmond O'Brien | Walther Suessenguth | Wolfgang Völz (ZDF), Friedrich G. Beckhaus (DVD) |
| Sheriff Link Appleyard | Andy Devine | Franz Nicklisch | |
| Peter Ericson | John torments | Erich Kestin | |
| Nora Ericson | Jeanette Nolan | ??? | Ela Behrends (ZDF), Luise Lunow (DVD) |
| Doc Willoughby | Ken Murray | Kurt Jaggberg | |
| Pompey | Woody Strode | Hans Walter Clasen | Erich Räuker (ZDF), Kaspar Eichel (DVD) |
| Major Cassius Sturbuckle | John Carradine | Curt Ackermann | |
| Maxwell Scott, Editor in Chief | Carleton Young | Friedrich Joloff | |
| Charlie Hasbrouck, reporter | Joseph Hoover | Jörg Cossardt | |
| Amos Curruthers | Denver Pyle | Helmuth Grube | Erich Räuker (DVD) |
reception
Reviews
“The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is one of Ford's most beautiful westerns - and one of the most beautiful of all. First of all, it is a solidly made cinema piece in which Tom Doniphon breaks the unwritten code of honor of the Western and shoots his opponent from ambush, in the interests of greater justice. […] What is more interesting, however, is how the legends and myths of the Western that Ford has sung about so often are questioned here. "
“This is certainly a cinematic climax to the myth of the Wild West. John Ford, Grand Master of the Western, staged one of the most interesting late works of the genre. "
"An evocative testimony to the realization that every epoch is based on the lies of the preceding."
“What is perhaps his most 'honest' western, which was able to perfectly reveal the American penchant for making legends, was created by Ford in 1961 with“ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ”. (...) The film ends with the bitter realization that legend has priority over truth in America and that the press has no interest in shaking up 'heroes' who have raptured themselves into memorials. "
Awards
The costume designer Edith Head was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for her costumes in a black and white film . John Wayne received the Laurel Award in the Top Action Performance category. The entire ensemble received the most important Western award, the Western Heritage Award.
In 2007 the film was entered into the National Film Registry .
literature
- Enno Patalas : Review of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". In: Filmkritik , 6th year (1962), No. 10.
- Mark Ricci, Joe Hembus (Ed.): John Wayne and his films (OT: The Films of John Wayne ). Citadel Movie Books. Goldmann, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-442-10202-2 .
- Dorothy M. Johnson: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (OT: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ). Heyne, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-453-20545-6 [contains several stories by Johnson].
- Janey A. Place: The Westerns of John Ford (OT: The Western Films of John Ford ). Goldmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-442-10221-9 , pp. 227-245.
- Michael Hanisch: The man who shot Liberty Valance. In: Bernd Kiefer , Norbert Grob (ed.), Marcus Stiglegger (collaboration): Filmgenres. Western (= RUB . No. 18402). Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-018402-9 , pp. 247-250 [with references].
- Dirk C. Loew: Attempt on John Ford. The Western Films 1939–1964 . BoD, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2124-X , pp. 319-327.
- Akki Nitsch: Dramaturgical analysis "The man who shot Liberty Valance" . Proof of performance in the trmd course at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen , 2007 ( PDF ).
- Robert B. Pippin : “Who Cares Who Shot Liberty Valance? The Heroic and the Prosaic in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ". In: Ders .: Hollywood Westerns and American Myth . Yale University Press, New Haven / London 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-14577-9 , pp. 61-101.
- Martin Seel : " The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or the opacity of normative change". In: Ders .: Ignore “Hollywood”. From the cinema . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397224-5 , pp. 99-135.
See also
Web links
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The man who shot Liberty Valance in the online movie database
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Comparison of the cut versions German VHS - Uncut of The man who shot Liberty Valance at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmdlexikon.de and Spiegel.de .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The man who shot Liberty Valance. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
- ↑ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - IMDb. Retrieved April 22, 2019 .
- ^ Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski : Reclam's electronic film lexicon (CD-ROM). Reclam, Stuttgart 2001.
- ↑ Thomas Jeier: The Western Film (= Heyne Filmbibliothek. Vol. 32/102). Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-86104-3 , p. 166.
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 49.