Shane (1953)
Country: US
Technical: col 118m
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer
Synopsis:
A roaming gunman stays with a farming family in the Rockies, and defends the local community from a cattle baron who wants the land for his own use.
Review:
Classic Western in which Stevens cemented in his deliberate manner many honoured themes of the genre: the tension between restless gunman and settled rancher, the dirty town with its archetypes, the role played by landscape. Notably, the arguments of the conniving cattle baron against being fenced out by smallholders are persuasive, and the film makes just enough of the fact that he is as much a dinosaur as Shane himself, once law and free entrerprise get their hands on the land. The fights and gunshots are brilliantly staged and recorded, and few will follow de Wilde's dying cries of 'Shane!' with a dry eye.
Country: US
Technical: col 118m
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer
Synopsis:
A roaming gunman stays with a farming family in the Rockies, and defends the local community from a cattle baron who wants the land for his own use.
Review:
Classic Western in which Stevens cemented in his deliberate manner many honoured themes of the genre: the tension between restless gunman and settled rancher, the dirty town with its archetypes, the role played by landscape. Notably, the arguments of the conniving cattle baron against being fenced out by smallholders are persuasive, and the film makes just enough of the fact that he is as much a dinosaur as Shane himself, once law and free entrerprise get their hands on the land. The fights and gunshots are brilliantly staged and recorded, and few will follow de Wilde's dying cries of 'Shane!' with a dry eye.
Country: US
Technical: col 118m
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer
Synopsis:
A roaming gunman stays with a farming family in the Rockies, and defends the local community from a cattle baron who wants the land for his own use.
Review:
Classic Western in which Stevens cemented in his deliberate manner many honoured themes of the genre: the tension between restless gunman and settled rancher, the dirty town with its archetypes, the role played by landscape. Notably, the arguments of the conniving cattle baron against being fenced out by smallholders are persuasive, and the film makes just enough of the fact that he is as much a dinosaur as Shane himself, once law and free entrerprise get their hands on the land. The fights and gunshots are brilliantly staged and recorded, and few will follow de Wilde's dying cries of 'Shane!' with a dry eye.