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. It starts with a great story, the story of shane (alan ladd), a quiet gunslinger who is trying to escape his past and befriends a pioneer family who have settled out west. Yes, on the surface, shane is the gunfighter who wants to leave his past behind him, who yearns for the sort of domesticity he finds on joe starrett’s place in the grand tetons. Watch shane (1953) free starring alan ladd, jean arthur, van heflin and directed by george stevens. Based on the novel shane by jack schaefer (boston, 1949) A mysterious drifter helps farmers fight off a vicious gunman.
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 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. 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. Learn more about the full cast of shane with news, photos, videos and more at tv guide
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