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VHS : Shane [1953]
starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance
directed by: George Stevens
directed by: George Stevens
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5014437201324 Format: HiFi Sound, PAL Label: Paramount Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment Release Date: September 07, 1998 Running Time: 113 minutes Sales Rank: 3874 Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1953 |
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Consciously crafted by director George Stevens as a piece of American myth making, Shane is on nearly everyone's shortlist of great movie Westerns. A buckskin knight, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into the middle of a range war between farmers and cattlemen, quickly siding with the 'sod-busters'. While helping a kindly farmer (Van Heflin), Shane falls platonically in love with the man's wife (Jean Arthur, in the last screen performance of a marvellous career). Though the showdowns are exciting, and the story simple but involving, what most people will remember about this movie is the friendship between the stoical Shane and the young son of the farmers. The kid is played by Brandon De Wilde, an amazing child performer; his parting scene with Shane is guaranteed to draw tears from even the most stony-hearted moviegoer. And speaking of stony hearts, Jack Palance made a sensational impression as the evil gunslinger sent to clean house--he has fewer lines of dialogue than he has lines in his magnificently craggy face, but he makes them count. The photography, highlighting the landscape near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, won an Oscar. --Robert Horton
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- The greatest Western - EverI shall always remember the thrill as a small boy when my parents took me to a local cinema to watch a western. Randolph Scott and particularly Joen McCrea were the order of the day at the time. But Shane was such a hard act to follow regular westerns were just not the same after. Shane played by Alan Ladd, was so good that even with the enhanced photography of today there are not many westerns that can hold a candle to this thoughtful film.
It is interesting that the original intended ... Read More
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- classic which still compelsI saw this film first in the cinema in the early 50s - I would be about 8. It had a spell for me then and still has now, It's based on an excellent short book by Jack Schaefer, who wrote well and realistically about the old West. Good faces evil, but it's a complicated good, fronted by a professional killer who hates both his past and himself, and a complicated evil, the cattle baron Ryker, who was a brave frontiersman who now, threatened by inevitable progress, uses the only tactics he knows, those of ... Read More
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- We need you, Shane!Shane is a masterpiece, irrespective of genre. Naturally, most discussion of the film comes up in the context of 'great Western' debates but this is a little unfortunate since Shane is a great film which happens to also be a great Western.
From the opening scene to the immortal closing shot Shane captures the imagination and the emotions. It is not that Shane offers anything particularly new in terms of storyline: the mysterious drifter wandering into a town where a struggle between homesteaders ... Read More
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- A Western PaintingAlan Ladd starred in one of the most spare and beautiful westerns ever captured on film in George Stevens' portrait of a lonely gunfighter and the bond he forms with a family of homesteaders under seige out west. Jack Schaefer's very good western novella was lofted to greatness by Ladd's quiet performance as the gunfighter Shane, who gets a glimpse of the life he would have preferred rather than the hand he was dealt.
A story and film which sounds simple, and is often described as such, is really ... Read More
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- One of the great westerns.This is a classic and over the decades since its making has lost none of its charm. It has everything a good old fashioned western should have. Theres the quiet unassuming hero, Alan Ladd, who can only be pushed just so far and the dastardly bullying villian Jack Palance that he's going to have a reckoning with.The stirring music has you hooked from the start. Its wonderful, put your feet up and imagine yourself in the one and nine pennies at Saturday morning pictures.This is how cowboy films were meant to be. ... Read More
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