, 1h58 Directed byGeorge Stevens OriginUSA GenresDrama, Action, Adventure, Western ActorsAlan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Edith Evanson Rating75% 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.