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Film, Video Web Page The man who shot Liberty Valance

About this Item

Title

  • The man who shot Liberty Valance

Summary

  • A bungling but charming big-city lawyer is determined to rid the village of Shinbone of its number one nuisance and bad man, Liberty Valance.

Names

  • LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Paramount Pictures Corp., 1962 ; United States : [Paramount Home Video, 1983?]

Genre

  • Westerns
  • Drama
  • Features
  • Videodiscs

Notes

  • -  LP21681 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Paramount Pictures Corp. & John Ford Productions, Inc.; 13Apr62 (in notice: 1961); LP21681.
  • -  Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: Paramount Pictures Corporation ; 1983.
  • -  John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance), Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray.
  • -  Possible videodisc reissue date from copyright notice on videodisc jacket.
  • -  Running time given as 118 minutes on videodisc jacket and as 123 minutes in Catalog of copyright entries : motion pictures, 1960-1969, p. 344.
  • -  Summary taken from videodisc jacket.
  • -  On videodisc jacket: Paramount Home Video LV6114.
  • -  Based on the story by Dorothy M. Johnson.
  • -  Sources used: videodisc jacket and label; shelflist card; Catalog of copyright entries : motion pictures, 1960-1969, p. 344.
  • -  Received: ca. 1984; viewing copy; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.
  • -  Received: ca. 1963; ref print; copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.

Medium

  • 1 videodisc of 1 (laser) (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. viewing copy.
  • 7 reels (ca. 10620 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DAA 1281 (viewing copy)
  • FGB 5308-5314 (ref print)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 92507999

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Lc Purchase Collection, and Copyright Collection. The man who shot Liberty Valance. [United States: Paramount Pictures Corp., ; United States: Paramount Home Video, 1983?, 1983] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/92507999/.

APA citation style:

Lc Purchase Collection & Copyright Collection. (1983) The man who shot Liberty Valance. [United States: Paramount Pictures Corp., ; United States: Paramount Home Video, 1983?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/92507999/.

MLA citation style:

Lc Purchase Collection, and Copyright Collection. The man who shot Liberty Valance. [United States: Paramount Pictures Corp., ; United States: Paramount Home Video, 1983?, 1983] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/92507999/>.