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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
Jan 1, 2023 · Alan Ladd is Shane, the mysterious, six-gun wielding stranger who rides into a valley where Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and a handful of other men are trying to carve out homesteads. They’re doing that to the consternation of Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer).
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Sep 3, 2000 · There are intriguing mysteries in “Shane,” puzzles and challenges, not least in the title character and the way he is played by Alan Ladd. Ladd was a movie star of below-average stature and strikingly good looks, and for much of his career he worked around both of those attributes in roles where he was photographed to look tough and taller.
Alan Ladd’s portrayal of Shane as a brooding, enigmatic hero has become legendary in the annals of Western cinema. His quiet intensity and moral ambiguity make him a compelling and mysterious figure, drawing audiences in from the moment he appears on screen.
Jan 3, 2019 · The story of Shane, a former gunslinger who tries to help the Starrett family fight a cattle baron intent on driving them off their land, the action is largely seen through the eyes of young Joey Starrett, a nine-year-old boy who come to worship this quiet, mysterious stranger.
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Alan Ladd plays the laconic drifter in white buckskin who takes up residence as a farmhand with a simple homesteader (Van Heflin), his dutiful, wholesome wife (Jean Arthur) and son (Brandon De Wilde in a Wyoming valley.
