Shane (film)
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| Directed by | George Stevens |
| Produced by | George Stevens |
| Screenplay by |
A.B. Guthrie Jr. Jack Sher |
| Based on |
Shane 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer |
| Starring |
Alan Ladd Jean Arthur Van Heflin Brandon deWilde Jack Palance |
| Music by | Victor Young |
| Cinematography | Loyal Griggs |
| Edited by | William Hornbeck Tom McAdoo |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.1 million |
| Box office | $20,000,000 |
Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film from Paramount, noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre. The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie, Jr., based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. Its Oscar-winning cinematography was by Loyal Griggs. Shane stars Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur (in the last feature, and only color, film of her career) and Van Heflin, and features Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Ben Johnson.
Shane was listed No. 45 in the 2007 edition of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list, and No. 3 on AFI's 10 Top 10 in the 'Western' category.
Shane (Alan Ladd), a skilled, laconic gunfighter with a mysterious past, rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming, some time after the Civil War. At dinner with local rancher Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and his wife Marian (Jean Arthur), he learns that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's settlers. Though they have claimed their land legally under the Homestead Acts, a ruthless cattle baron, Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer), has hired rogues and henchmen to harass them and drive them out of the valley. Starrett offers Shane a job, and he accepts.
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