I’m 56 and I’ve watched this movie once every 3 years since my dad introduced it to me in 1973. I still shed a tear at the ending of this classic and iconic movie. Probably the best western. # 2 good bad & ugly # 3 magnificent seven
God damn .. its like ur teling my story too brother.. Im also 56.. my dad was a big westerns fan.. have seen all of THE DUKE'S movies.. but Shane is something else..the greatest western ever put in front of an audience.
@@sergeo861986 100% agree with you. My dad (RIP) and I would stay up late watching all the classic westerns. As a young kid I learned life long lessons due to these movies. Which I also made my kids watch these great movies as well. They also learned life lessons and are both great law abiding adults now. Maybe todays youth should watch these movies as well. It could help our country and restore values. Cheers!
🤠 - Well, 'Shane' is clearly a Top-Western, but there are a lot of "finest" movies - not just One ! And it also depends on anyone's individuals likes and dislikes !
@@kevinquinn3763was 50 at the time and pulled off 35. She didn't want to do it but director Stevens kept after her. Her only color film. I don't think she was on screen again until she did one '65 Gunsmoke episode.
Watched it with dad when I was 8, in '70. I've been spellbound by it ever since. I'm a war movie junkie but Shane will always be #1 all-time for me. So much good represented in it, courage, overcoming the odds and fighting evil, integrity, love of a child, history of America, scenery of America, incredible score, shows how really bad people have to be stopped ("tell your mother that there aren't any more guns in the valley"), sacrifice and more.
what I love about shane is that he is the only number one fast shooter and he does not say it and is so humble and carrying for others well being before his own. Thats why I love Alan Ladd
Indeed. Quite soulful. Thou shalt not covet... 'Ryker' coveted all that land and put into action, trying to (thou shalt not)steal all that land. Not exactly saying 'Shane' coveted 'Starret's' wife, but he knew when to get out of town. That was the potential 'killer'. He 'shalt notted' his way into the moon set. That's the #1 battle out there. For example, many actors in 'tinsel town' fall victim to 'covetness' with all those subsequent divorces. Hollywood is what it is - chiefly - entertainment. Nonetheless, stay real - "strong and straight" . Indeed.
I lived in Japan for 6 years and SHANE was broadcast at least once a year on TV and shown frequently in Retro Movie theaters. Still VERY popular there after all these years.....and with me. :) A timeless classic
With all due respects to Wayne, Eastwood and all the others, the greatest Western ever made...if this ending doesn't evoke a tear or two, your heart is made of stone...easily Alan Ladd's greatest performance, one for the ages...
Thank you for doing the complete ending...........wonderful, saw it when I was 14 at the Elco theater in Elkhart Indiana. 5 shows that summer, for 5 dollars, it was absolutely brilliant . 1964.
One of the greatest Westerns ever made, with an unforgettable ending. On my Top Ten List with "Red River","Hondo","The Searchers","Gunfight At The O.K.Corral","Vera Cruz","Little Big Horn","The Magnificent Seven","Major Dundee,"Ride The High Country".
Thank you 🙏 so much for this beautiful tragic and heartbreaking moment captured in a clip. Although language,time, and space separate us. I’d like to think we are close in the impact this has had.💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 🔥
Alan Ladd as Shane. A man so bad you cant even shoot him in the back! In the long history of westerns there have been many iconic heroes. Only one Shane. In the same sense that this is indisputably the greatest western ever filmed. Look at what he represents. A stranger riding into a law forsaken territory. Ostracized by the worthless homesteaders he helps to defend. Joe Starrett is on his side, only after discovering he isnt a member of Rikerts hired hands. Loyal to the disloyal, he steadfastly does what's right. Shane is such a paragon, he wont even cheat with Marion Starrett. Even though she clearly is drawn to him. For obvious reasons! In perhaps the finest finale in cinematic history, our hero dispatches the mighty Jack Wilson. Not only that, Roof Rikert and his worthless back shooting brother. In the end little Joey, our helpless little hero worshiper, begs Shane to come back home. Too noble to cause a rift between Joe Starrett and his family he rides off into the sunset. This is why Shane the character and Shane the movie is the epitome of a western. And values in a film as well. Anyone who argues otherwise is clueless to the core. A benchmark yet to be approached.
How do I live as a man through a Era? This movie keep appearl on to every men. Now Era insist that men and women should not be thinking to divide and everybody thinkso. But there is a way of life as a man I think.Every time I think so when I watch "Shane".One of my favorite movie .
One other comment, the tension and editing of this final scene are so perfect even the dog walks out! Clearly sensing that death is in the air at the hands of Shane. Unfortunately for the Rykert brothers and Jack Wilson, man's best friend had more sense than they did. Due to Alan Ladds beautifully understated acting there is a cool confident bravado to his character Shane. No other western actor in history conveys this like Alan Ladd. NONE. Keep John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and all the rest. At 5-6 Alan Ladd still towers above them all. No bluster, no macho mannerisms that say "Look at me. Damn I'm bad." The baddest western hero of them all. Or hero in any other genre.
William Holden at the end of "The Wild Bunch " says to all the assembled baddies,We want Angel " their friend who was being slowly killed by the said baddies.About 20 seconds later there followed the most brutal ,savage and violent shoot out in the history of Cinema. It lasts for several long minutes .It is though the menacing,loaded phrase, " we want Angel ", uttered by Holden which changes the atmosphere to one of approaching violent sudden death which hangs in the air .I like Shane though as the meeting of Wilson and Shane is held off to the last sudden gunfight .That is high drama in itself !
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Filmed at Jackson Hole, Wyoming apparently. A lot of rainy days during the shooting (no pun intended), hence the mud everywhere, particularly in the Town scene, where Wilson kills one of the locals, who had more guts than brains. Should've known better than to up against a killer like Wilson.
@@antoniofernandesdequeiroga6197 - Since we all have different likes and dislikes - it may be better to say : Shane (or any other of your favorites) is One of the Best Western movies ! - 🙂 -
Saw a double bill of Shane and the Searchers in 2000 when the Library of Congress was touring 50 American classics in the National Film Registry. They were nnew 35mm prints. Both looked amazing.
In my opinion it is the best too followed distantly by The Shootist although it was unrealistic rarely do such skilled gunfighters face each other as a kid I wondered when I said Wilson was fast very fast and yet he killed him the reason being is he shot just a little straighter than Wilson & Wilson Nicked him
I remember Shane and the book we had a book report on looking through the eyes of Joey seeing a fast gun taking down those who took the lives of others. Shane didn’t want to encourage the young boy to become a gunfighter.