The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)








A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Kirsten Day
Cowboy classics, The roots of the American western in the epic tradition
Edinburgh, 2016

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 60s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Fred Landesman
The John Wayne Filmography
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2004

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Tom Weaver, Biography by Gregory William Mank
John Carradine: The Films
Jefferson, NC, 1999

William Darby
John Ford's Westerns, A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1996

Mark Ricci, Boris Zmijewsky, Steve Zmijewsky
The Complete Films of John Wayne
New York, NY, 1995

Tag Gallagher
John Ford: The Man and His Films
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1986

J.A. Place
The Western Films of John Ford
Secaucus, N.J., 1974

Books with an entry on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003