Shane

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Summary: The Best
Review: I have seen hundreds if not thousands of movies and this is my favorite movie of all, not just my favorite western. I have watched it at least 60 times.

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Summary: A Treasure
Review: This Really is One of the Best Films Produced By American Cinema, Just the Look of the Production is enough to warrant Attention but the story grips from the first frame. Alan Ladd excels as the Errant Gunman, Juxtaposing with Van Heflins Solid Famer and Walter "Jack" Palances Gun Fighter. This Production is Class from start to Finish.

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Summary: Best Western ever!
Review: One unforgettable scene after another -- each beautifully planned and photographed. The fight between Van Heflin and Alan Ladd is the best one in the movies. The funeral scene that alternately focuses on the adults and the playing children is a demonstration of film originality. See this movie!

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Summary: Something for Today's Pumped-Up Rambo's to Learn From
Review: Ditto's to all that's been said about the story, the characters, the production. Few know it, but this film was recorded in the best 4-channel stereo that 1952 could offer (so why isn't it on DVD, arready! ). It made a star out of Jack Palance, whose weird mannerisms and acting style fit superbly into the part of Jack Wilson. It was great to see Alan Ladd, one of Hollywood's truly wasted talents, get a great role like this one - director George Stevens took underrated Ladd and a so-so Jack Shaefer western and transformed it into a memorable event. One problem: the little TV tube doesn't do justice to the effect of this movie when seen on a big screen in multi-channel stereo. Do yourself a favor: pay a few bucks for this movie, then spend $2000 on equipment worthy of displaying it.

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Summary: If you like westerns, buy "Shane"!
Review: Buy "High Noon" as well. Both are great, see them for your self. Read some reviews as well, I have never read a bad one of either.

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Summary: The best western of all time.
Review: "Shane" is the best example of why the western was the genre of choice in the 50's. It has stood the test of time and continues to endear itself to each successive generation.

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Summary: A classic.
Review: "Shane", along with "High Noon", can arguably be called the best westerns ever made. Both are that rare breed of film that never seems to age or get stale. "Shane" is unique in that even the bad guys aren't all bad, and have reasons for being the men they are. If ever a 50's movie script was played with believable characters and honest dialogue, then this is it. If you haven't viewed this film in a while or never have seen it (can this be?), then do yourself a favor and rent it. "Shane" is a solid 10 out of 10, and a movie I never tire of.

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Summary: A tale of real friendship and sacrifice in the Old West
Review: Perhaps the best Western ever made,Shane is set within an actual episode in the history of the American West, the Johnson County War.It has all that one desires to experience in a western;breathtaking scenery,riding, rodeo,fighting,gunfights.And there is much more going on, all done with refreshing simplicity.The director, working with fine actors,skillfully developes personalities, relationships,and a full palate of feelings and drives among the various characters,the most poignant of which are the responsibility assumed by Joe Starrett, the delicacy and purity of the mutual admiration of Shane and Marion Starrett,and the utter selflessness and sacrifice of Shane in returning to the ways of his hated past to avert the destruction of this family that he loved, their friends and their way of life.

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Summary: Great film
Review: Good family western with enough gun play for dad. Jack Palence is outstanding as Wilson. His dare to Shane "prove it" is worth the wait of the whole film.

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Summary: Quintessential Gunfighter Goes Straight Movie
Review: Marvelous . . .