A drifter, he is hired as a farmhand by hardscrabble rancher joe starrett, who is homesteading with his wife, marian, and their young son, joey. With alan ladd, jean arthur, van heflin, brandon de wilde A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act in this classic oscar winning western Like many westerns before and since, “shane” all comes down to a shootout in a barroom, although first there is an unusual amount of conversation The people in the valley are not simple action figures, as they might be today, but struggle with ideas about their actions. Shane, american western film, released in 1953, that is a classic of the genre, noted for exploiting the elegiac myths of the old west via a unique juxtaposition of gritty realism and painstakingly composed visual symmetry.
A retired gunfighter in search of a peaceful life comes to the aid of a homestead family threatened by a notorious land baron and his hired gun. When the silent killer of the maltese falcon gets killed himself by hired gun palance, shane, a rough sleeping drifter, takes the law into his own hands, and then moves on. Alan ladd as shane, a former fast gun looking for a fresh start in shane (1953) brandon dewilde as joey starrett, watches a showdown from under the doors of the saloon in shane (1953) review Deservedly hailed as one of the great westerns, director george stevens brings a realism to the west you won’t find in many other westerns of the 1950s. George stevens originally cast montgomery clift as shane, and william holden as joe starrett When both decided to do other films instead, shane was nearly abandoned before stevens asked studio head y
