My Dad took me to see this at a drive in on it's re-release in the early 1960s. A father and son memory I'll treasure forever. I've had the movie on DVD for years. Great film.
It always seems the great movies become classics when remakes simply are not possible. Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, Giant, Casablanca, Shane, From Here To Eternity, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandment, et al testify to that.
I would love to see a new adaption one day, just like they did with 'True Grit'. The newer being better than the original from the 60s. But with todays bullshit... i don't know. I'm affraid what they would do to Shane.
Exactly, who could you cast that had the star power of the main characters? Even the up and coming Jack Palance, who, was credited as Walter Jack Palance, made a huge contribution as the seriously bad guy. And then there’s that kid, what a kid.
I seen the Movie at the Showboat theater in Freeport Texas I think it was 1953. I still watch it . My Daddy carried me to see it. I was a Cowboy from an early age. And well remember all the Silver Screen stars from Johnny Mac Brown, Hopalong, Gene, Audie Murphy, John Wayne, and many more.
I loved that movie when I was a boy (81yo now) and I had the VHS video in the 80's and saw it about 30 + times...Alan Ladd and Jack Palance were perfectly cast for their roles but everyone played their parts well also...unforgettable gunfight at the end. Thanks for the memory.
I first saw "Shane" when I was about 10 years old back in the '60s.. No movie I have ever seen since has had such a profound emotional impact on me. I was totally enthralled and captivated. I still feel that way today because it's such a great movie, beyond being just a western. It's so well made, perfectly directed and photographed with such great characters and acting and set in such a magnificent location.
That’s exactly how I feel. I watched this film in the 60’s when I was a little boy. I still watch it when it comes on. By far my favorite film of my life
One of my favorite Westerns ! My others are True Grit, My darling Clemintine, Stage coach, The Searchers, Winchester 73, Magnificent Seven, and The Cowboys.
Victor Young's theme music is glorious Joe'y's, "he wouldn't have shot you / cleared leather" shouts to Shane as he rode away after the gunfight, made me wonder if Shane's wound was given him by Wilson or Ryker's brother up on the balcony. I always assumed it was the rifle-shot from the balcony. I've watched that shoot-out scene several times and i'm sure Wilson didn't get Shane with any of his pistol shots. SO, maybe Joey's dialogue was mistaken.
My father introduced me to Shane. I was probably the same age as Little Joey at the time. I wish he was still alive. He would've loved to visit these locations.
*QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER* is another Cult Film that cannot be remade. Tom Selleck said he would make a sequel of it -IF- he could find a better script than the original movie. I guess he never found a better script which is fine with me.
Elisha Cook Jr . " You're nothing but a low down lying yankee " Jack Palance " Proove it " . ( I don't think they could have picked anyone better for that part )
The final moments of this extraordinary movie has been with me since I discovered back in 2001.The film itself it's a jewel in the vast majority of western films.The majestic view of the mountains, Joey's voice echoing thru the valley calling his hero to come back has a personal meaning for all of us who had lost a father, brother, son, friend. It holds an immense feeling of emptiness and sadness
You are so Wright they made a part two to high noon. It was sh... It would be like painting another Mona Lisa. There is and will only ever be one shane
I was over touring on a HD motorbike a few years back. I had read before that the old farmstead used in the movie still stood. I asked an old man in Jackson tourist centre where I could find the ruins - his face lit up as if he had witnessed his first born and a smile broke across his face from ear to ear. I travelled to the farmstead and called out to Shane….but he was long gone 😢
On the high plateau of the Grand Teton valley in Wyoming an American Film masterpiece came to life during the summer and fall of 1951 and was truly an iconic western by George Stevens that is almost 75 years old now and in my opinion, the greatest western ever made !!
What a wonderful film. One of my all time favorite movies. The ending always does me in, seeing little Joe, with his tear stained face, running after Shane and calling for him. His anguish is raw and palpable.
We have found all of the Shane movie locations, the Shane cabin spot, Earnies cabin, etc. It took several years. The only one shown in this video is Earnies cabin.
@@usamade5943 No we just used the movie and looked at the sites. We talked to the man that brought the cabbages out from town every day for the "garden". He told us about where the shane cabin was and on our own we found the location. I believe the cabin was moved to Jackson for a while and then was bought by someone from Texas and moved there. We worked in Jackson for three years and had lots of time to look.
So, Ernie Wright's place is sort of there but I didn't quite understand the rest of the video. Near the end as Shane is leaving, you see a couple buildings in the prairie (not nearly as many as made up the small town in the movie), then suddenly they're gone. Anyway, it's my favorite movie and thx for the effort. I wonder if there's any movie memorabilia left from Shane?
In the deer scene at the beginning you can see a white PU truck way off in the distance.Shane was fine a movie with a great setting. The genre and stories repeat the same theme again and again. Shanes gunbelt was done by Zuni Silversmiths.I Think the" cartwhee"l themes of the Silver are Indian designs and are not cartwheels.They have some symbolic meaning. Jack Palance was the best bad man ever.He has the same black hat that Henry Fonda had in Once pon a Time in the West. Standard dress for bad men. Shanes buckskin outfit is rather odd. We note the big ranchers are always evil in westerns. Corporate America?One of the best westerns of all time,but the Searchers with John Wayne is the greatest. That is based on a true story.
Bellissimo film con ottimi attori ed accompagnato da un splendida colonna sonora. Lo rivedo sempre molto volentieri senza mai annoiarmi. Alessandro Firenze Italy
"So you're Jack Wilson. I've heard about you." " What have you heard Shane?" " I've heard that you're a lowdown Yankee liar." " Prove it". Best scene in a great movie filled with great scenes.
After this movie came out, “prove it…” Became a common schoolyard challenge. Still best western ever, but I’m afraid music videos and the short scenes, frequent camera cuts, and unnecessarily brutal violence of modern moviemaking have shortened peoples attention spans to the point that they can’t appreciate the tension and drama of the sequences in this movie. The dog slinking out right before the final gunfight should’ve had his paws preserved at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
I had a film class years ago in school that showed this and you could clearly see an airplane off in the distance flying past in the final scene where Ladd is riding off. It got removed as I haven't seen it since. A really great film. Jack Palance looks demonic as the hired killer.
The greatest line in movie westerns.what did you here Shane.i heard you were a low down yankee liar.greatest shot in western movies.the last shot.Shanes gun is pointing to the floor and kills the man on the balcony.LOL.
