118 minutes.Īcademy Award winner: Color Cinematography (Loyal Griggs)Īcademy Award nominee: Best Motion Picture, Actor in a Supporting Role (Brandon De Wilde and Jack Palance), Directing (George Stevens) and Writing – Screenplay (A. Shot on location near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the film’s rich Technicolor cinematography captures the panorama of the frontier during a crucial moment in Western mythology, when civilization was encroaching on the seemingly endless wilderness. ![]() Van Heflin and Jean Arthur co-star as Joey’s parents, who find their lives deeply affected by Shane.Ĭonsidered by Allen to be veteran producer-director George Stevens’s masterpiece, “Shane” marked Stevens’s first foray into color. Shane (Alan Ladd), the man without a past or a future, inserts himself into the battle over land being waged between homesteaders and a cattle baron, and in the process, transforms a beleaguered town. “Shane” is a classic western that has influenced numerous directors, including Warren Beatty and Woody Allen, who called “Shane” one of his favorite American films and praised its “poetry and elegant flow.”īased on Jack Schaefer’s successful 1949 novel, the film recounts the age-old story of the duel between good and evil through the eyes of Joey (Brandon De Wilde), an impressionable young boy who idolizes a mysterious gunslinger. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Alan Ladd (l) and Brandon De Wilde star in the 1953 classic ‘Shane.’ (photo: ) John Clark Blogs AugHollywood is not lacking movies about courage it is, however. “A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. ![]() A 60TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF A NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES MANGOLDĪ PART OF THE GEORGE STEVENS LECTURE SERIES
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