Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, [6] rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889. A drifter, he is hired as a farmhand by hardscrabble rancher Joe Starrett, who is homesteading with his …

Shane: Directed by George Stevens. With Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde. An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

Sep 3, 2000 · The movie is conventionally seen as the story of farmers standing up to the brutal law of the gun in the Old West, with a lone rider helping a settler hold onto his land in the face of hired thugs. Look a little more carefully and you find that the rider and the farmer’s wife feel an attraction for one another.

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...

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Based on the novel Shane by Jack Schaefer (Boston, 1949). While playing on his Wyoming homestead, young Joey Starrett spies a lone rider approaching his house, then listens with great curiosity as Shane, the buckskin clad stranger, reveals to his father Joe that he is …

A retired gunfighter in search of a peaceful life comes to the aid of a homestead family threatened by a notorious land baron and his hired gun.

Jan 2, 2025 · 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.

Shane (Alan Ladd), a retired, golden-haired, mysterious, fringe-buckskinned gunslinger-knight, rides onto a Wyoming fledgling frontier farm on a chestnut horse with white-stockinged feet.

Jul 23, 2024 · Universally renowned as one of the best Westerns ever made, “Shane” was nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Picture), winning one. The American Film Institute (AFI) named it the 3rd Greatest Western of All-Time, the 45th Greatest Film, and the 53rd Most Inspiring, for starters.