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Shane [VHS] [1953] | ![Shane [VHS] [1953]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512A5BEHHVL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: George Stevens
Actors: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 2929
Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 5014437201324
ASIN: B00004CJYQ
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1953
Release Date: September 7, 1998
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Consciously crafted by director George Stevens as a piece of American myth making, Shane is on nearly everyone's shortlist of great movie Westerns. A buckskin knight, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into the middle of a range war between farmers and cattlemen, quickly siding with the "sod-busters". While helping a kindly farmer (Van Heflin), Shane falls platonically in love with the man's wife (Jean Arthur, in the last screen performance of a marvellous career). Though the showdowns are exciting, and the story simple but involving, what most people will remember about this movie is the friendship between the stoical Shane and the young son of the farmers. The kid is played by Brandon De Wilde, an amazing child performer; his parting scene with Shane is guaranteed to draw tears from even the most stony-hearted moviegoer. And speaking of stony hearts, Jack Palance made a sensational impression as the evil gunslinger sent to clean house--he has fewer lines of dialogue than he has lines in his magnificently craggy face, but he makes them count. The photography, highlighting the landscape near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, won an Oscar. --Robert Horton
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ALAN LADD IS SHANE IN THIS CLASSIC WESTERN August 29, 2010
Mr. W. J. Wright
The classic 1952 Western SHANE must surely be as famous a film as is the legendary
actor ALAN LADD who played the main character role of Shane himself.
Without a doubt a brilliant western,that also has a splendid supporting cast of
JEAN ARTHUR,VAN HEFLIN,BRANDON DE WILDE,JACK PALANCE,BEN JOHNSON,EDGAR BUCHANAN,plus others.
Filmed in stunning colour amongst magnificent scenery. The story is of course as well known as
is the film itself. But in brief,Shane[Ladd]is a drifter and retired gunfighter,comes across a
family of homesteaders being terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired fastgun[Palance].
Shane himself is bought into this,and to save the homesteaders from certain death,as they really
don't want to moveon,Shane,an incredibly fast gun has to go and sort out the wealthy cattleman,
his men,and in particular the hired fast gun of a killer[Palance].
Needless to say an absolutely brilliant shootout of an ending,and one of the most famous in western
cinematic history. DVD also includes the original theatrical trailer.
Regards,Bill.
The Great Cowboy Films August 22, 2010
Rougie
"Shane" is among the greatest Cowboy Films ever made. The story line is perfectly told. There are various tensions running through the film all building up to a terrific climax - escape from the past; the powerful against the weak; marriage fidelity versus the attractive stranger ; the experience of age trying to teach the innocence of youth ; the way of the gun against the life of peace. It's all there. It is well worth seeing again (and again) !
old movies July 20, 2010
julia (west midlands england)
i brought this for my partner for christmas he loves it said it was the one of the best presents he'd had well worth it
 Nice views of the mountains but....... April 18, 2010
Humpty Dumpty (Wall St, Upton Snodsbury)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I can't believe all these ***** reviews. Before the lynching party can get booted and saddled up, sure, the film has a satisfying outdoor feel to it, and the theme of an outsider blowing in from nowhere like St George and having despatched Jack Palance's dragon blowing out again before he can eat his hosts out of pork and beans is a perennially fascinating one. The photography and colour are exemplary, and the shot set-ups are carefully planned, especially the great opening. But in my view there are enough drawbacks to make the film's classic status puzzling, and I watched it with mounting despair.
That theme of the avenging angel is as old as the hills and in fact is done - and possibly better done - the same year in Hondo, itself no masterpiece. What's remarkable about it is that director George Stevens takes two hours to present a simple tale of the man with one name popping up, witnessing and then joining the fight between Good (100% honest homesteaders) and Evil (100% greedy landowner), then disappearing again into the sunset, with never a sub-plot or wider bit of social comment in sight. The pace of the movie is leaden, funereal even, and perhaps it's no coincidence that one of the scenes where long landscape shots come together nicely with individual action is the burial of the murdered smallholder.
That landscape - majestic, yes, but we're stuck throughout with those distant peaks and by the end it's like having Vermeer's View of Delft hanging on the wall of your back parlour; once the thrill's staled with familiarity it might as well be a Jack Vettriano or Beryl Cook. The music is overblown and uncomfortably persistent, with every change of mood and new arrival telegraphed almost by tannoy. There was a moment 10 minutes in where the musical flourishes very nearly turned into a full sub-Brahms symphonic poem. None of the actors other than Alan Ladd needs to act outside the box - Jack Palance glowers menacingly, the always excellent Van Heflin looks suitably and valiantly at his wits end, and Brandon de Wilde does well with his repetitive, sentimental, clunking script but is no Bobby Driscoll in The Window (1949), let alone a Nadia Mikhalkova in Burnt by the Sun (Russia, 1995). Jean Arthur has nothing to do.
But there is a problem with the acting, and it's Alan Ladd. A good baritone voice, yes, but he's never the most animated of players - out-acted in The Blue Dahlia by William Bendix and Doris Dowling, and in Red Mountain by Arthur Kennedy and John Ireland. It's not just his short stature but his whole slight build allied to weak screen presence that makes his heroics with fists and gun unfeasible if not downright preposterous; in his immaculately pressed fawn cowboy outfit he looks more like a dummy in the window of a toyshop than a worn, range-hardened gunfighter.
The picture and sound quality on this release are fine, and there's a commentary by George Stevens' son and the British associate producer; this is insipid, however. They start from the premise that the picture's a masterpiece and carry on blithely slipping out gossipy anecdotes and plaudits with their critical faculties set to zero.
In sum, a keen disappointment.
Perfection in film making March 31, 2010
Richard Milton
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
People are sometimes surprised when I name Shane as one of my two all time best films, something that I, in turn, feel surprised about. It is the best integrated film I know - the story, the settings, the costume, and above all the music all work together perfectly.
The film has wonderful touches of authenticity that constantly surprise. Shane (Alan Ladd) has hung up his six-shooters trying to abandon the life of a gunslinger, yet young Joey persuades him to show him his guns in action. When Shane draw and shoots at a target the noise is deafening and Joey runs away in terror. It is the sound that is authentic, perhaps for the first time in a western.
The only street shoot-out takes place between a hopelessly inadequate homesteader, goaded to fury, and Jack Palance as the scariest hired gun in all films. Palance doesn't merely murder the homesteader in cold blood, he plays with him, smiling as he kills. The murder takes place against the backdrop of a real thunderstorm gathering around the town and beautifully photographed.
There is the usual confrontation between the honest settlers and the rapacious cattle baron, but here it is the cattle baron who wins the argument and steals the scene. His impassioned description of how he and his pioneering kind won the land in the first place is heroic, inspiring and also heart-rending. He is filmed looking up from below, as he sits on his horse like a granite monument to guts and initiative, his sillhouette rugged against the western sky.
One reason the screenplay of Shane is so unusual - and perhaps the reason it works so well - is that the story is told through the eyes of a small boy. When Shane finally rides out, wounded, probably fatally, Joey's cries of "Come back, Shane" echoing around the valley, are for me the most poignant moment in all cinema.
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