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Genres:
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Drama /
Western /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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George Stevens
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Actors:
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Jack Palance,
Edgar Buchanan,
Jean Arthur,
Alan Ladd,
Emile Meyer,
Douglas Spencer,
Brandon De Wilde,
Van Heflin,
Ben Johnson,
Elisha Cook Jr.
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Duration:
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118 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)114
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Plot Summary:
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An ex-gunfighter (Alan Ladd) sides with Wyoming homesteaders (Jean Arthur, Van Heflin) against a cruel cattle baron.
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Shane
If you've not till hell freezes over seen it, Shane is a announcement, a marvellous distillation of all that is fine thither Hollywood cinema. A great captain (George Stevens) takes on a familiar species (the western) and imbues it with a vision that is both personal and all-encompassing. Sweeping you up via Loyal Griggs's Technicolor photography and Pecker Hornbeck and Tom McAdoo's exalted editing, it tells the story of a gentleman's gentleman, a the missis and, primarily, a boy, whose lives are changed on the stranger dressed in buckskin who rides on to their farm. Alan Ladd gives the performance of a lifetime in the title role; not an unmistakable choice, he is mind-boggling, and the rest of the squint are also spotless, notably Jean Arthur as the married woman whos...
Shane
A diminutive depressive, Alan Ladd wasn't an palpable preferred to play Shane, one of cinema's great (anti) heroes. The large-partition inclusion of author Jack Schaefer's ace gunfighter, Ladd (so deficient rare he opportunity most of his scenes standing on a box) possesses all the charisma, poise and self-possession of Gary Cooper or John Wayne. This is largely scheduled to Ladd's moving stoicism - he has an unsmiling hardness that wouldn't look out of place on Mount Rushmore. However, the information that Shane the badge is every bit as celebrated as Shane the film is also down to a stupendous romance, superb supporting performances and a phenomenal behind-the-camera performance from director-producer George Stevens.
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