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Shane is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Stevens released in USA on 23 april 1953 with Alan Ladd
Shane (1953)
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Add to a movie listShane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film from Paramount, noted for its landscape cinematography and contributions to the genre.
It was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie, Jr., based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. Its Oscar-winning cinematography was by Loyal Griggs. The film stars Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur (in the last feature, and only color, film of her career) and Van Heflin, and features Brandon deWilde, Elisha Cook, Jr., Jack Palance and Ben Johnson.
Shane was listed No. 45 in the 2007 edition of AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies list, and No. 3 on AFI's 10 Top 10 in the 'Western' category.
Synopsis
Shane (Alan Ladd), a skilled, laconic gunslinger with a mysterious past, rides out of the desert and into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming some time after enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862. At dinner with a pioneer homesteader, Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and his wife, Marian (Jean Arthur), he learns that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's homesteaders. The ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer) is trying to run them out and seize their land. Starrett offers Shane a job, and he accepts.Actors
Alan Ladd
(Shane)
Jean Arthur
(Marian Starrett)
Van Heflin
(Joe Starrett)
Brandon deWilde
(Joey Starrett)
Jack Palance
(Jack Wilson)
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