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May 27, 2023 · T he 1950s were a pivotal decade for the western, and George Stevens’s Shane has become one of its most celebrated examples — bracketed by two others in the form of High Noon (1952) and The ...
- Barnaby Page
Jul 17, 2023 · On today’s show, Dave and Doreen give examples of Shane and Shane’s involvement with Bethel and Elevation and discuss a plan for discernment.
Jan 3, 2019 · “Shane” would be Stevens’s first Western since 1935’s “Annie Oakley.” At his colleague Howard Hawks’s suggestion, Stevens hired novelist A.B. Guthrie, who’d just won a Pulitzer for his western novel “The Big Sky”, to adapt Schaefer’s book to the big screen. This would be Guthrie’s first screenplay.
Apr 22, 2018 · Shane, played with a sense of great stoicism by Alan Ladd, is more than just a classic Western figure; he is a living embodiment of the contradictions inside any person who lives by a code of violence.
- Redmond Bacon
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.
Joe Starrett hires Shane as a hand on his farm, and Shane puts aside his handsome Western clothes and buys dungarees. He then helps the homesteaders to avoid intimidation by Fletcher and his men, who try to get them to abandon their farms.
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Apr 27, 2016 · Shane has every opportunity to let his friend ride off to die at the ranchers’ hands, but he’s too noble to take advantage. Instead, he takes the man’s place at the showdown, protecting and restoring the family dynamic he’s interrupted by going off alone to the fight.
