Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
- gunslinger
- showdown
- funeral
- legend
- ranch
- outlaw
- lawyer
- black and white
- stagecoach
- cowboy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Wayne
Tom Doniphon
James Stewart
Ransom Stoddard
Vera Miles
Hallie Stoddard
Lee Marvin
Liberty Valance
- Edmond O'Brien — Dutton Peabody
- Andy Devine — Link Appleyard
- Ken Murray — Doc Willoughby
- John Carradine — Cassius Starbuckle
- Jeanette Nolan — Nora Ericson
- John Qualen — Peter Ericson
- Willis Bouchey — Jason Tully
- Carleton Young — Maxwell Scott
- Woody Strode — Pompey
- Denver Pyle — Amos Carruthers
- Strother Martin — Floyd
- Directed
- John Ford
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,297 ratings
- Studio
- John Ford Productions, Paramount Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
