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Good start, but then it gets ruined

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Absolutely the worst movie.

Shane is one of those films where you know something is coming and you frighteningly wait for the pay off and the pay off definitely comes for its debt. Dangerous silence through great and fantastic anticipation. Alan Ladd is splendid and Jack Palance is terrifying, giving the viewer a spine-chilling feelingA wonderful cast where every actor is perfectly cast in their role. A classic for all time and for all ages. They don't quite make them like this anymoreDefinitely worth the watch!

It is considered one of the best films of all time. And once again, I'm too stupid to figure out why... Average tra-la-la western story. It is not bad for a western, although it is not much above the average in the genre, and within the entire history of the film, I'm not giving it a crumb above the six.6/10

Copyright 27 March 1953 by Paramount. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 23 April 1953. U.K. release: 24 October 1953. Australian release: 25 September 1953. 10,718 feet. 118 minutes. NOTES: Winner of The Picturegoer Seal of Merit. Second to From Here To Eternity in The Film Daily annual poll of American film critics and second to Julius Caesar as the Best American Film of 1953 in the National Board of Review awards. For his performance in the title role of this movie, Alan Ladd won the Photoplay Gold Medal Award for Best Actor of 1953. (Available on an excellent Paramount DVD). COMMENT: What can one say about this perfect western that has not already been said in countless reference books and reviews? The point I was going to make was the effective contrast Stevens presents between God's scenery and man's brutality. And yet this is not a simple God's guys versus the bad guys epic. The good guys are somewhat flawed too and the bad guys through their spokesman, Emile Meyer, offer a quite convincing argument in favor of their violent reaction. Ultimately, of course, they overstep the bounds. But after all that climactic action, perhaps it is the hero (played by stoic Alan Ladd in a perfect bit of casting) that misses out. What does he get for coming to the rescue? What's his reward? Stevens very effectively conveys by purely visual means exactly what the hero expects and what he ultimately receives.

ShaneThe reason you don't see old gunslingers is because greeters at Wal-Mart cannot be armed.Another reason, as this Western points out is that most end up dead.After the Civil War a weathered gunfighter, Shane (Alan Ladd), moseys into a Wyoming settlement where he befriends a farmer (Van Heflin), his wife (Jean Arthur) and their son Joey (Brandon deWilde). When Shane learns a greedy cattleman (Emile Meyer) and his henchman (Jack Palance) are strong-arming the settlers off their property, he agrees to help fight back. Admired by Joey for his prowess with a pistol, Shane cautions him on the way of the gun.Still one of the greatest films ever produced thanks to its poignant storytelling, compelling characters and ambiguous ending, this Technicolor adaption of the popular paperback is a gritty dissertation on obsolescence.Besides, the world still needs gunslingers to perform twice daily at Wild West theme parks.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca