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 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. Acclaimed director george stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential western myth earned six academy award Nominations, and made shane one of the classics of the american cinema. 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 Frank freeman who was available. 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. 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. Rhoc's shane simpson revealed what he hoped emily simpson would change after wife swap Universally renowned as one of the best westerns ever made, “shane” was nominated for six academy awards (including best picture), winning one
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