Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, [5] rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889. A drifter, he is hired as a farmhand by hardscrabble …

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Shane: Directed by George Stevens. With Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde. An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

Sep 3, 2000 · Yes, on the surface, Shane is the gunfighter who wants to leave his past behind him, who yearns for the sort of domesticity he finds on Joe Starrett’s place in the Grand Tetons.

Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family.

Shane, American western film, released in 1953, that is a classic of the genre, noted for exploiting the elegiac myths of the Old West via a unique juxtaposition of gritty realism and painstakingly …

When the silent killer of the Maltese Falcon gets killed himself by hired gun Palance, Shane, a rough sleeping drifter, takes the law into his own hands, and then moves on.

The greatest story of the West ever filmed! A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

Shane (Alan Ladd), a retired, golden-haired, mysterious, fringe-buckskinned gunslinger-knight, rides onto a Wyoming fledgling frontier farm on a chestnut horse with white-stockinged feet.

Shane – the protagonist, a mysterious gunslinger who enters into the life of Joe Starrett and his family and carves a place for himself in their hearts. Although he tries to leave his gunslinging past behind, …