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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]
The homesteader-rancher tension draws to a fantastic climax, one of the best in Western films, and copied to some degree many times. "Shane" is the real deal, the prototype, and its Oscar haul would have been much greater if it were not pitted against " From Here to Eternity" in 1953.
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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A young, wide-blue-eyed, eight year-old son, Joey Starrett (Brandon de Wilde) is tracking a deer with his unloaded rifle. Shane (Alan Ladd), a retired, golden-haired, mysterious, fringe-buckskinned gunslinger-knight, rides onto a Wyoming fledgling frontier farm on a chestnut horse with white-stockinged feet.
Shane's fancy gun twirling in the climactic showdown was actually performed by Rodd Redwing. Earlier, when Shane demonstrates his prowess for Joey, and it is clearly Alan Ladd himself on camera, the actor had been given a different, easier-to-use revolver for the scene.
May 27, 2023 · But then like Shane himself, the archetypal western man of mystery, Stevens’s beautifully crafted, multi-layered, exploration of the relationships underpinning a small incident in a small Wyoming settlement in the 1880s is not quite what it seems when you first meet it.
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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.
