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Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin. Released by Paramount Pictures, [4][5] the film is noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre. [6]
Shane: Directed by George Stevens. With Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde. An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.
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- Drama, Western
- George Stevens
- 1953-08-14
The boy is puzzled by Shane and his hidden violence, who is beyond his sheltered experience, but comes to trust, love, and venerate him. [8] Times book editor Jack Miles wrote that “What makes ‘Shane’ different, what makes it a classic among Westerns, is that it is a story told by a boy.
- Jack Schaefer
- 1949
Sep 3, 2000 · Yes, Shane is the man–even though he knows that if he succeeds he’ll have to leave the valley. “There’s no living with a killing,” Shane tells Joey, after shooting three men dead in the saloon. “There’s no going back from it. Right or wrong, it’s a brand, a brand that sticks.”
May 27, 2023 · We see a young boy—Joey, the son of Joe and Marian—playing at hunting, stalking a drinking deer; it runs at the horseman’s approach, although the irony is it probably has more to fear from Joey than from Shane. Western genre elements soon appear: in almost the first line of the film, Shane comments that “I didn’t expect to find any ...
Shane (1953) is a timeless, classic western tale - a very familiar and highly regarded seminal western and the most successful Western of the 1950s. The film's rich color cinematography captures the beautiful environment of the legendary frontier (filmed on location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming) with its gray-blue Grand Tetons as a backdrop.
Shane, American western film, released in 1953, that is a classic of the genre, noted for exploiting the elegiac myths of the Old West via a unique juxtaposition of gritty realism and painstakingly composed visual symmetry.
