Publication
Imprint: Hollywood, California : Paramount, Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video. [2000] ©1980 Context: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952. Responsibility: Based on the novel by Jack Schaefer.
Original theatrical trailer. ; a Paramount Picture ; George Steven's production ; produced and directed by George Stevens ; screenplay by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Credits: Director of photography, Loyal Griggs ; editors, William Hornbeck, Tom McAdoo ; music, Victor Young. Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Jack Palance, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Emile Meyer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Douglas Spencer, John Dierkes, Ellen Corby, Paul McVey. Awards: Academy Award, 1954: Best color cinematography.
OCLC Number: 45084868 . Physical: 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Features: Special features include: Optional audio feature commentary with George Stevens, Jr. and [associate producer] Ivan Moffat;
Call number
DVD / Front Desk
ISBN
0792163710 / 9780792163718
Original publication date
1953-04-23
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
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Library's review
Though it's a fun movie with classic values, you might wonder how it fits the CSS Library's collection. Joel is about the same age as Brandon De Wilde who plays the homesteaders son, and enjoyed this movie in his youth (and beyond). One of our practitioners at the fall 2016 retreat picked this up
Taken from a scene with Alan Ladd as Shane, teaching the young Joey how to draw his pistol and shoot:
Joey asks "gee is that how real gun fighters do it?"
and Shane replies "No different gun fighters have their own methods. One, for instance, likes to have a shoulder holster. Another one puts it in his - the belt of his pants. And there are some who like two guns. But one's all you need if you can use it."
Joey then asks "Which is the best way?"
and Shane replies "What I'm telling you is a good a way as any and better than most."
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for us after hearing Joel use a few lines to describe his teachings:Taken from a scene with Alan Ladd as Shane, teaching the young Joey how to draw his pistol and shoot:
Joey asks "gee is that how real gun fighters do it?"
and Shane replies "No different gun fighters have their own methods. One, for instance, likes to have a shoulder holster. Another one puts it in his - the belt of his pants. And there are some who like two guns. But one's all you need if you can use it."
Joey then asks "Which is the best way?"
and Shane replies "What I'm telling you is a good a way as any and better than most."
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Physical description
4.75 inches
Awards
National Film Registry (1993)
AFI's 10 Top 10 (Western — 3)
Media reviews
Mysterious and laconic, Shane rides down from the mountains into a valley where he encounters the homestead of farmer Joe Starrett, his wife Marian and their young son Joey. Starrett is the unofficial leader of a large group of homesteaders, who have united in opposition to a rapacious cattleman,
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Rufus Ryker. Ryker and his brother Morgan are trying to drive all the homesteaders out, so that they control over the entire valley. Shane takes Starrett's side in a confrontation with Ryker's men, and stays on to work on Starrett's farm. The homesteaders continue to resist, so Ryker imports famed gunslinger Jack Wilson from Cheyenne. When Wilson goads one of the homesteaders into a gunfight, he sets off a showdown between himself and Shane--with the future of the valley in the balance. Show Less
Description
A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
Original language
English
User reviews
LibraryThing member comfypants
A wanderer helps homesteaders fight cattlemen.
2/4 (Indifferent).
It's 30 minutes too long, and often irritating.
2/4 (Indifferent).
It's 30 minutes too long, and often irritating.