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 rancher Joe Starrett, who is homesteading with his wife, Marian, and their young son, Joey.
Considered by most a masterpiece and by a few 'a waste of film', 1953's SHANE is a mini-epic that tells of the arrival of the mysterious stranger who comes to 'town' and impresses the innocent and threatens the guilty. A good versus evil western was never been more defined.
Yes, Shane is the man–even though he knows that if he succeeds he’ll have to leave the valley. “There’s no living with a killing,” Shane tells Joey, after shooting three men dead in the saloon. “There’s no going back from it. Right or wrong, it’s a brand, a brand that sticks.”
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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 composed visual symmetry.
Universally renowned as one of the best Westerns ever made, “Shane” was nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Picture), winning one. The American Film Institute (AFI) named it the 3rd Greatest Western of All-Time, the 45th Greatest Film, and the 53rd Most Inspiring, for starters.
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.