Mythic archetypes: Joe is the civilized man, the man who runs a household and works to provide for his family; Shane is the warrior, the man of violence. It takes both types to build a world that people can live in. But, eventually, the man of violence must give way to the civilized man. The man of violence, once he has secured a place for the civilized man, must move on; there's no place for him in the civilized world of the householder. Little Joey idolizes the warrior, the man of violence, just like little boys have always done. But he has to learn to respect his father, the civilized man, the householder, for he must grow up and take his place eventually. The warrior is trying to make a world where he is no longer needed. That's the tragedy of his situation. Many westerns present this exact theme: e.g., The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Problem is, there is always evil in this world that men of violence must be called on to stand up against, time and time again, in order for civilization to go on. If evil were to ever truly triumph and reduce living on Earth to constant misery, horror and heartbreak for everyone evey second of everyday, nothing could withstand it, but the Almighty.
It's better to have a worrier in the garden, than a gardener in a war. Shane wanted to be that good man. He didn't want to call on his violent side. But he did have it when needed. No, not all violent men can curb, or turn off the violent side, Chris Kyle, in his book American sniper Wrote when he came back to America, he needed to wait 2 weeks before he would see his family. He needed to get his head straight. He needed to transform back into that family man. Not everyone can do that. Kudos to those that can. Kudos to those that recognize that they need to.
"Now you run on home to your mother, and tell her... tell her everything's all right. And there aren't any more guns in the valley." Shane's parting gift to Marian. ❤
_"What kind of pie is that... I bet it's the best pie in the whole world, I'm so hungry. It's apple pie, it looks delicious."_ - This is the commentary I come here for. Dawn Marie is the voice of the people.
You don't get that from film critics, as a general rule. They don't usually tell you "There was a pie in this movie. It was a fine pie, one of the best I've seen. It made me hungry just looking at it. I gave it 2 stars for the pie"
Shane was a career gunfighter/killer like Wilson.if he stayed, there would always be more bad guys coming to get him. Like he told Joey, "Tell your mother there are no more guns in the valley..." Including his. He had to leave. 😢
It wasn't only for this reason. Shane had an unspoken longing for Marion and she for him. But yeah, mostly because a violent man was no longer needed or welcome in that valley.
@@thomast8539 I didn't say "only." It was even acknowledged when Joe told Marion he knew she & Joey "would be taken care of" if he didn't come back from the confrontation. Both men were making selfless sacrifices for the same reason, but ultimately, the best option was to rid the valley of gunplay and leave it up to the farmers -- no Wilsons, no Shanes; their time was coming to an end & Shane knew it. "Riker, your trouble is you've lived too long, your kind is finished..." "Yeah, well what about your kind, Shane?" "The difference is I know it..." (I paraphrase.) On SO many levels, imo this has always been the definitive Western.
@@chetcarman3530Some, like my brother Mike, believed Shane's wounds were fatal and had no choice but to ride off into the sunset and bite the dust. Whatever his motivation, is left interpretation, but I think yours the most probable...
There's a website that puts forth a very fun (if somewhat silly) theory. Years after leaving the Starrett farm, Shane would become the ghostly, gunslinging Preacher in the film Pale Rider. Before he was Shane, though, he was the notorious black-clad gunslinger Shannon, as mentioned in Jack Schaefer's original novel Shane. Before that, he was the wandering amnesiac known as Shenandoah, from the 60s TV series A Man Called Shenandoah. Before that, he was the similar, unnamed wandering amnesiac played by Robert Urich on the short-lived 90s TV series Lazarus Man. And finally, before that, he was originally a Texas Ranger named Dan Reid, Sr., who secretly survived an ambush by the bandit Butch Cavendish, but due to his traumatic wounds he permanently lost all memory of his true identity. Dan's younger brother John Reid, also surviving the same ambush and completely unaware of Dan's survival, went onto to combat evil as the Lone Ranger.
The actor who fights with Shane and later quits Riker is Ben Johnson ,a great supporting western actor . He played Sergeant Tyree in several of John Wayne's US Cavalry movies . He was a REAL cowboy who was a rodeo champion . He won an Oscar for his role in " The Last Picture Show "
@@Hiraghm In terms of philosophical value I totally agree, Shane has it right and Pale Rider has it wrong. But I still enjoy parts of Pale Rider and most of Eastwood's westerns. He comes under the umbrella of what Leonard Peikoff calls "The Survival Value of Great (Although Philosophically False) Art" in one of his lectures.
It's beat for beat an exact remake. Only the surface things have changed. Gold Prospectors vs Gold mining company. Homesteaders vs Ranchers. The removing Stump scene is replaced with breaking a large rock
I NEVER thought I'd see Shane on YT. My favorite movie as a kid (decades before the internet) and I even bought the book for 1.00 in the discount bin at the book store. I haven't watched this movie in decades, only now realizing that this movie had future big time actors, like Jack Palance, Edgar Buchanan and Ben Johnson. What a stellar cast!! Point of Trivia: A picture of Jean Arthur and Brandon DeWilde (from this movie) show up in the movie "In Harm's Way" as the picture is supposed to be John Wayne's ex wife and estranged son. Brandon has a major part in In Harm's Way as John Wayne's adult son.
Thank you for that piece of cinema history! ❤ I have a place in my heart for "Shane" like you do. When I was in the third grade I had reading class with the fourth graders. "Shane" was one of the books we read, and I've loved it ever since. 🙂 PS - And another piece of cinema, and Emily, history we were both released in 1953. 🙂
Please please please consider reacting to Lonesome Dove. Based on what is considered to be the finest Western novel ever written. Both Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall consider it to be their finest work. Nominated for 10 Emmys. It’s a four part mini series with some extraordinary performances. Please watch and react to it.
Classic Movie!! More movies from that era please ! Alan Ladd's son in real life will grow up and run 20th Century-Fox Studios in the 70's. He was the studio head that said yes to George Lucas to make "Star Wars" . Later as a independent producer in the 80's "The Ladd Company" would produce "The Right Stuff" and other top notch movies !
Hi Dawn, Alan Ladd(Shane) who was a very popular actor of Hollywood's Golden Age, was also a depressant. His mother commited suicide in front of him when he was a young man, which affected him greatly for the rest of his life. As Ladd's career waned in the early 60s, his depression became more prominant, enhancing his alcoholism, and pill intake. In 1964, at the age of 50, Ladd was found dead in his bed. The coroner report ruled the death an accidental death as a result of mixing alcohol with barbituates to combat his chronic insomnia. Many believe Ladd committed suicide, and that his death was not accidental. Two years prior, he shot himself in the chest, in which Ladd said was an accident due to tripping and falling while holding a gun, and that the gun accidentally discharged, but many believe it was an unsuccesful suicide attempt. Ladd's last movie 'The Carpetbaggers' which was released in 1964 posthumously was a big hit with the public. Many people believe, and myself, that Shane was the greatest western ever made, and by your reaction, you might think so also. RIP Alan Ladd.
Jean Arthur, then age 50, came out of semi-retirement to play Marian Starrett, largely as a favor to her friend, director George Stevens. She would retire completely from the film business after this picture. Also in this: future TV stars Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction) and a small role for Nancy Kulp (Miss Jane on The Beverly Hillbillies).
Ten years later, the little boy in this film, Brandon deWilde, was in another great Western film, Hud (1963) It stars Paul Newman (as Hud), and Brandon plays his teenage nephew who's torn between Hud's ne'er-do-well lifestyle and the values of his deeply moral grandfather. Great film and definitely worth a look. As a bonus, it also stars Patricia Neal in a very earthy, sexy performance as the world-weary housekeeper at the ranch who both Paul and Brandon become interested in.
the book the film is based on is a little more realistic in that shane is actually shot while wiping out the bad guys but it isn't clear how bad he's wounded or if he might die later he manages to mount his horse and leave town with the little guy yelling "Shane! Shane!" after him of course⚛😀
Alan Ladd was a successful and popular leading man in the 40s & 50s. He was also fairly short and often would be stood on a box for romantic closeups. His breakout movie was the film noir _This Gun for Hire_ (1942), also starring the stunning Veronica Lake in one of her best performances. Sadly, Ladd died in 1964 at the age of fifty. Stonewall Torrey was played by Elisha Cook, Jr. whom you met in _The Maltese Falcon._ He played Wilmer, Gutman's (Sydney Greenstreet) young henchman. Jack Palance (Jack Wilson) played mostly villains and tough guys his entire career. He was nominated for the Oscar three times, including for his role in _Shane,_ winning once: Best Supporting Actor in the 1991 Western comedy _City Slickers._ Among his other awards he won an Emmy award for the 1957 television drama, _Requiem for a Heavyweight._
Alan Ladd was only 5'6" tall, but, like Tom Cruise, he was good at projecting the image of being taller, or at least the image that his height was unimportant. Veronica Lake was his perfect costar -- her "official" Hollywood height was 5'2", but she was actually not quite 5'.
Alan Ladd was a star athlete in high school & was photogenic but he worked in an era of tall Western stars like John Wayne & Gary Cooper, making it difficult to not be self concious about his height, even though in the 1940's & '50's, 5'6" although short, wasn't excessively short relative to average. Unfortunately, despite being a huge star whom women swooned over, it caused him to suffer from Imposter Syndrome. It may have resulted in his depression & alcoholism, leading to his relatively early death.
“I would think of him most vividly in that single flashing instant when he whirled to shoot Fletcher on the balcony at Grafton’s saloon. I would see again the power and grace of coordinate force beautiful beyond comprehension. I would see the man and the weapon wedded in one indivisible deadliness. I would see the man and the tool, a good man and a good tool, doing what had to be done” ― Jack Schaefer, Shane
Directed by George Steven's, who filmed the liberation of the Nazi death camps. He never made a war movie but this is best understood in light of the returning WWII veteran, a good man who saw/did some bad things but came back to build a community. An iconic film a ND great ending. The sound is fantastic. And the last movie performance I believe of the great Jean Arthur, who gets top billing you'll notice. Check out her in other films. My fave is The More the Merrier.
Dawn: "This is lovely. I could just watch this--like the whole movie could just be this--and I would be happy. It would get 'Best Movie Ever'. It doesn't need any action or killing or fighting." Also Dawn: "Or, you can smash it across his head, and then use the end bit, and--and jam it in his eye. Show him who's boss."
Jean Arthurs last film, and her first one in color. She started in silents in the 20's and was a top star in the 30's and 40's doing comedies. You will love her screwball comedies, other commenters have already recommended some of them. She is in her 50's in this movie, 12 years older than Alan Ladd, 8 years older than Van Heflin and 3 years older than Fred the grey bearded homesteader. Such a lovely women. Always a delight to see her in a movie.
One of the strangest things about this film is Marion who was played by Jean Arthur. The weird thing is...she was older than practically every other actor in the film, being born in 1900, eight years older than Van Heflin who played Joe, thirteen years older than Alan Ladd and nineteen years older that Jack Palance. She was ten years older than Emil Meyer who played the lead bad guy, Ryker! She was a very talented actress and looked much younger than her age. She lived to be 90 years old and outlived most of her costars in this film.
It was lovely that you got to see 'Shane'. This was my late dad's favourite movie. Whenever it was shown on TV, he would always put it on. This was the only movie that ever made him cry. Most likely it brought back sad memories of him seeing his own dad head off to fight in the 2nd world war, never to return. He was around the same age as the little boy in 'Shane'. My dad was originally from Stathkinness, Scotland, but moved to East London in the late 1950's. Thanks for watching my dad's favourite movie 👏🍻👍
The best cowboy movie ever made. For many years after kids could be heard yelling Shane all over the place. it is a story of redemption. A mythic man finally becoming what he was meant to be by helping some one else. Shane is a wounded god looking to do something good before he dies.
a remake of Shane as if made by Quentin Tarantino. Whereas Alan Ladd's character was a decent man, Clint Eastwood's was a scumbag. Pale Rider and Unforgiven are two of my most disliked Clint Eastwood films.
I don't quite see it as a remake, but when Clint used an ax handle in the early fight scene, that's definitely an homage to this, where an ax handle also comes to play in an early fight scene.
This was lovely! George Stevens directed comedies before the war, then he went into the war and filmed the liberation of Auschwitz. After the war... no more comedies... but a string of classics. A Place in the Sun, Giant, The Diary of Anne Frank...
Shane, released in 1953, was the first bigscreen (Vista-vision) color western film ever produced. (The format offered bigger, brighter images, but only slightly wider than standard films) It is the story of a gunfighter who comes to a recently settled farm area near a quiet town and fights for the farmers against the hard-bitten cattlemen who control the majority of the land. Based on a 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, some of the story is tied to Wyoming's Johnson County War. The physical setting is the high plains near Jackson Hole WY, with the spectacular Grand Teton massif looming in the near distance. The beauty of this film's setting was unprecedented in earlier western films. The music was stereophonic, and lent an additional grandeur to the Vista-vision presentation. Shane won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Brandon De Wilde), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Palance), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay. The film had an enormous cultural impact, especially the final inconic and mysterious scene. The original film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Recently, I finally learned a bit more about these camera lens setups, such as VistaVision, what they were meant to achieve, and a tiny bit about the technicolor film they were originally shot with. Fascinating stuff and it just adds to the appreciation of films and filmmakers from the 50s. Check it out!
Shane was not shot in VistaVision. That format was not introduced until the next year with White Christmas. Shane was made just as widescreen was being introduced. It was shot full frame (1.37 aspect ratio) and the top and bottom of frame cropped to create the widescreen effect.
Alan Ladd was the father of Alan Ladd Jr, who grew up to run 20th Century Fox. And was the only guy in Hollywood who took a risk and green-lit...Star Wars.
When I was a kid in the late 60s/early 70s, Jean Arthur was a drama teacher at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where my mother was getting her MA. One of Arthur's students at the time was Meryl Streep.
Jack Palance....what a star! Popular in movies from the 40s to the 90s! He won an Oscar for the billy crystal movie, city slickers! He was in his 90s and when he accepted his award, knocked out pushups on stage!
The movie was made in Grand Teton National Park outside of Kelly Wyoming on mormon row, the barn was burned down from a wild fire. My niece was married at the house to the west of it.
This has something in common with "The Searchers" You, like a lot of other people, think Shane was in love with Joey's mom and there was something between them. But Shane was in love with what Joey's mom represented. It's a big man (5'6" in this case) who fights to protect what someone else has.
I started baking things when i noticed how easy it was and how much better the things taste. I started with apple pies and now everyone makes me bake things for all the holidays.
Alan Ladd stood a mere five foot six. He required platforms to stand on for certain scenes. And the fight sequence he perfromed in was with future Oscar winner Ben Johnson, a real-life cowboy who drifted into show business due his horseman abilities and performed all of his own stunts. Let's not forget one of the best fight scenes in movies.
There's a feeling of satisfaction I get when watching an old classic movie that I seldom get when watching a more recent movie. It's the satisfaction of a story well told. If you're okay with the slower pace, which Dawn Marie seems to be, but sadly many of the younger generation are not, then these old classics will leave you with such a wonderful aftertaste in your thoughts and feelings.
Clint Eastwood's "Pale Rider" is a semi-remake of "Shane," but where the movie title signifies Death sitting upon his pale horse. It's another great Western, Dawn.
BEST western EVER. this my favorite western of all time the story of one man who tried to change what he was and in the end he realizes that every man has a destiny and you can try to change but who or what you are comes out in the end. I believe joey would grow up to be just like his hero Shane.
I've been preaching to ALL reactors to do this movie -- Best Western, EVER! I first saw it in 1954 at age 7. I've grown up in The West for 76 years and was a film critic in the 90s. Thank you for appreciating this GOAT Classic!❤❤❤ (Next: The Searchers)😊😊
I was delighted to see you react so favorably to my favorite western, which is in fact one of my three favorite movies of all time (along with King Kong 1933 and The Wizard of Oz). In my opinion this is not only the best western ever made, but one of the best films of any kind. George Stevens directed another great classic, Giant, with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes McCambridge, and in his final role, James Dean. It's set in west Texas and is about cattle ranchers having to give way to the encroaching oil boom.
I saw this at a drive'in movie theater with my Mom and Dad when I was Jodie's age. Left a lasting impression on me. We studied Jack Scahaefer's book "Shane" when I was in junior high and I got an A on my book report.
I grew up knowing Jack Palance (the villain) as the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not on TV, a fun 80's show about trivia and oddities. Later knew him from Burton's first Batman movie and City Slickers, but was aware by then that he was a serious actor from this age. My Dad loves Shane, considers it one of the must-see westerns.
This is absolutely my favorite western. Ladd is just so understated as the gunman who cant escape his former life and who eventually uses it to bring justice for the homesteaders. Beautiful scenery in Wyoming with the Grand Tetons as backdrop. The ending always brings out the tears. I think this was the few westerns that Alan Ladd ever did, he was in some excellent film noirs, most notably This Gun for Hire with the sultry Veronica Lake.
Loved this film since i was a small boy watching it with my granda. Also when i was in jail for few month over Christmas time this came on the telly, I'd never been so happy.
Considered the first modern Western where someone being shot is shown with jolting brutality and blood. Before that, whenever someone got shot , the person would grimace, clutch their bloodless chest with no hole seen in the shirt, then fall forward slowly. In the big scene Torrey (Elisha Cook) is seen being jolted back several feet into the mud by use of a cable.
Good choice. Definitely one of the best westerns ever. Joey’s reactions during the fight scene while eating the hard candy was priceless. Jean Arthur, who played Marian, was very good in comedic roles early on. A good one to start off with is “The More The Merrier” -1943.
You can see Brandon DeWilde in the great movie "Hud" with Paul Newman. He is around 17 in this one and it's a relatively modern day western and a great story.
Hilarious side note about Jack Palance's character. When Ryker visits the Starrett home at night and Wilson (Palance) is there, he mounts and dismounts his horse very slowly. It seems menacing, like he's ready to draw, but the real reason was a lot funnier. Palance didn't know how to ride a horse! They filmed the sequence very slowly so Palance wouldn't fall. Parts are actually used in reverse, like when Wilson is remounting. Palance didn't know how...so they had him dismount very slowly and then reversed the film to make it look like he was getting back on the horse. Film tricks!
5:14 Dawn Saying "The whole movie could just be this (Shane and the family bonding and working the homestead), and I would be happy" and her taste for westerns makes me think she would like "Will Penny" (1967) starring Charlton Heston.
Car wreck. He was performing in a play at Elitch Gardens and was driving his van to see his pregnant wife about to deliver. He hit some roadside construction equipment & broke his neck. (I live here & remember it well.)
The cinematography in this film is amazing. One of best reasons for watching this movie is the natural scenery. The skies, the mountains, the landscape. There are people who will go through their entire lives and never notice this artistry of nature. Even dark skylines and clouds have their beauty. And Autumn skies can be truly mesmerizing. Oh, and the movie ain't too bad either. Great reaction.
I watched this movie with my father and grandfather during the holidays. Somewhere in northern Poland, my grandfather had a small plot of land with a "Gypsy wagon" on it . With straw-stuffed mattresses and a small tourist TV. About 35-something years ago... In our parts western were still very popular although they were almost dead in America.
They actually remade this movie in the 1980’s with Clint Eastwood… instead of being called Shane, Clint was a Preacher (former gunfighter) with no name (in traditional Clint fashion) … and instead of a boy, the kid was a girl … and the settlers are gold miners instead of farmers … but the plot is the same … You should check it out … it’s called “Pale Rider”
Legendary western. And it's rare for a western to show you the human side of the villains and give reason for why they are the way they are. You can understand their side of it.
I'm still chuckling over, "I wonder what kind of pie that is? I bet it's the best pie in the world," said with such seriousness. From whatever angle you lo at her, Dawn seems to be something special.
Thanks for sharing your reaction with us. I was named after the main charter in this movie. My dear departed folks got to know Alan Ladd when he made movies in SW Utah, that's why they named me Shane. Thanks for your channel.
I'm so glad you did Shane, one of my favorite westerns. Trivia, the bar fight scene took 3 weeks to film. Exterior scenes where shot in Wyoming's Grand Teton mountains, absolutely eye popping.
Jean Arthur, the wife, is an exceptional actor. May I suggest "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"? An excellent film starring Ms. Arthur and Jimmy Stewart. I love watching these films with you, you have a great sense of humor. Thank you.
A top movie of any kind, George Stevens was a master director. Van Heflin was a great actor and Jean Arthur is my fav. Actress ever, this was her last movie, she was like 51. If you get a chance to Watch "Mr. Smith goes to Washington or Mr. Deeds Goes to Town remember this was her, she's just much older. My Fav. Western ever, sorry Duke, but t has everything, scenery, dancing, music, hero. P.S. What most do not get, via Marian & Shane was she had feelings for him as a person, not as a man per se. She knew he was trapped in a lifestyle he had chosen, one which mandated he could never fall in love with a woman and raise kids, he had to be what he was. So, she had a very deep empathy for him. And he mourned for what Starrett had, he wanted to change, meet a wife and have kids, but after trying, he knew it would never work.
True story: My Dad was assigned to Mountain Home Air Force Base in Boise, Idaho during his service in the Korean War. On his way there with my mother and older sister (who was a baby at the time) he passed through Jackson Hole, Wyoming where this movie was filmed. The exterior sets were still up.
What too few realize is that Shane dies in the ending, bleeding out from his wound as he rode off. Thats why he wouldn't go back and would not answer Joey as he called after Shane.
You asked about the actor that played Joey (Brandon De Wilde). He had an active and successful career, until he tragically died in an accident at age 30.
In case you missed it, the question of whether Shane was shot at the end of the movie, and rides off to die, has been debated ever since the movie was released.
My 2 cents is that he dies at the end of the movie. His ascending up the mountain is his redemption on his way to heaven, combined with his body posture he is dead. His death and Wilson's death represents the end of an era which goes back to Joe's speech about a real town with a church and a school.
And by leaving, thogh I think Shane is dying, he also breaks any possible future vengeance or violence because of his death, that could have been done by the boy.
@@AI_Image_Master Yeah - I think its also telling that Joey calls out after him that "Ive got things for you to do" - seems like Shane doesnt have anything to do...
Mythic archetypes: Joe is the civilized man, the man who runs a household and works to provide for his family; Shane is the warrior, the man of violence. It takes both types to build a world that people can live in. But, eventually, the man of violence must give way to the civilized man. The man of violence, once he has secured a place for the civilized man, must move on; there's no place for him in the civilized world of the householder. Little Joey idolizes the warrior, the man of violence, just like little boys have always done. But he has to learn to respect his father, the civilized man, the householder, for he must grow up and take his place eventually. The warrior is trying to make a world where he is no longer needed. That's the tragedy of his situation. Many westerns present this exact theme: e.g., The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Exactly.. best example of this in my opinion, Lonely are the Brave. With Kirk Douglas.
This movie was about a bunch of guys that finished a war made by a bunch of guys who finished a war.
Problem is, there is always evil in this world that men of violence must be called on to stand up against, time and time again, in order for civilization to go on. If evil were to ever truly triumph and reduce living on Earth to constant misery, horror and heartbreak for everyone evey second of everyday, nothing could withstand it, but the Almighty.
Thats the story as you present it. However the man of violence is always around
he does not give way to the civilized man. What planet you on?
It's better to have a worrier in the garden, than a gardener in a war.
Shane wanted to be that good man. He didn't want to call on his violent side. But he did have it when needed. No, not all violent men can curb, or turn off the violent side,
Chris Kyle, in his book American sniper Wrote when he came back to America, he needed to wait 2 weeks before he would see his family. He needed to get his head straight. He needed to transform back into that family man. Not everyone can do that. Kudos to those that can. Kudos to those that recognize that they need to.
"Now you run on home to your mother, and tell her... tell her everything's all right. And there aren't any more guns in the valley." Shane's parting gift to Marian. ❤
Shane is a underrated classic. One of the best westerns.
Not one of the best. THE best.
Underrated? I've always heard people saying it is the best.
One of the best of any genre.
Shane is in The Library of Congress Film Registry for outstanding films
Shane is not underated. It's the most famous western ever
_"What kind of pie is that... I bet it's the best pie in the whole world, I'm so hungry. It's apple pie, it looks delicious."_ - This is the commentary I come here for. Dawn Marie is the voice of the people.
You don't get that from film critics, as a general rule. They don't usually tell you "There was a pie in this movie. It was a fine pie, one of the best I've seen. It made me hungry just looking at it. I gave it 2 stars for the pie"
Shane was a career gunfighter/killer like Wilson.if he stayed, there would always be more bad guys coming to get him. Like he told Joey, "Tell your mother there are no more guns in the valley..." Including his. He had to leave. 😢
It wasn't only for this reason. Shane had an unspoken longing for Marion and she for him. But yeah, mostly because a violent man was no longer needed or welcome in that valley.
@@thomast8539 I didn't say "only." It was even acknowledged when Joe told Marion he knew she & Joey "would be taken care of" if he didn't come back from the confrontation. Both men were making selfless sacrifices for the same reason, but ultimately, the best option was to rid the valley of gunplay and leave it up to the farmers -- no Wilsons, no Shanes; their time was coming to an end & Shane knew it. "Riker, your trouble is you've lived too long, your kind is finished..." "Yeah, well what about your kind, Shane?" "The difference is I know it..." (I paraphrase.) On SO many levels, imo this has always been the definitive Western.
@@chetcarman3530 Absolutely !!!
@@chetcarman3530Some, like my brother Mike, believed Shane's wounds were fatal and had no choice but to ride off into the sunset and bite the dust. Whatever his motivation, is left interpretation, but I think yours the most probable...
There's a website that puts forth a very fun (if somewhat silly) theory. Years after leaving the Starrett farm, Shane would become the ghostly, gunslinging Preacher in the film Pale Rider. Before he was Shane, though, he was the notorious black-clad gunslinger Shannon, as mentioned in Jack Schaefer's original novel Shane. Before that, he was the wandering amnesiac known as Shenandoah, from the 60s TV series A Man Called Shenandoah. Before that, he was the similar, unnamed wandering amnesiac played by Robert Urich on the short-lived 90s TV series Lazarus Man. And finally, before that, he was originally a Texas Ranger named Dan Reid, Sr., who secretly survived an ambush by the bandit Butch Cavendish, but due to his traumatic wounds he permanently lost all memory of his true identity. Dan's younger brother John Reid, also surviving the same ambush and completely unaware of Dan's survival, went onto to combat evil as the Lone Ranger.
The actor who fights with Shane and later quits Riker is Ben Johnson ,a great supporting western actor . He played Sergeant Tyree in several of John Wayne's US Cavalry movies . He was a REAL cowboy who was a rodeo champion . He won an Oscar for his role in " The Last Picture Show "
Really good in another great western - "The Wild Bunch".
Anytime I see BJ's work, his inherent humanity goes right into my heart.
"Shane" is a great movie. I recommend "Pale Rider" with Clint Eastwood. I believe it to be heavily influenced by "Shane" if not an outright remake.
Yes, Clint said that at one point. Darker version.
I believe Pale Rider is "Shane" if Quentin Tarantino wrote it. Pale Rider is to Shane what a toilet bowl is to a champagne glass.
@@Hiraghm In terms of philosophical value I totally agree, Shane has it right and Pale Rider has it wrong. But I still enjoy parts of Pale Rider and most of Eastwood's westerns. He comes under the umbrella of what Leonard Peikoff calls "The Survival Value of Great (Although Philosophically False) Art" in one of his lectures.
But Pale Rider also has similarities with High Planes Drifter.
It's beat for beat an exact remake. Only the surface things have changed. Gold Prospectors vs Gold mining company. Homesteaders vs Ranchers.
The removing Stump scene is replaced with breaking a large rock
I NEVER thought I'd see Shane on YT. My favorite movie as a kid (decades before the internet) and I even bought the book for 1.00 in the discount bin at the book store. I haven't watched this movie in decades, only now realizing that this movie had future big time actors, like Jack Palance, Edgar Buchanan and Ben Johnson. What a stellar cast!!
Point of Trivia: A picture of Jean Arthur and Brandon DeWilde (from this movie) show up in the movie "In Harm's Way" as the picture is supposed to be John Wayne's ex wife and estranged son. Brandon has a major part in In Harm's Way as John Wayne's adult son.
Thank you for that piece of cinema history! ❤ I have a place in my heart for "Shane" like you do. When I was in the third grade I had reading class with the fourth graders. "Shane" was one of the books we read, and I've loved it ever since. 🙂
PS - And another piece of cinema, and Emily, history we were both released in 1953. 🙂
Shane is considered one of the greatest westerns ever. I could watch it once a month and not get tired of it.
Please please please consider reacting to Lonesome Dove. Based on what is considered to be the finest Western novel ever written. Both Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall consider it to be their finest work. Nominated for 10 Emmys. It’s a four part mini series with some extraordinary performances. Please watch and react to it.
Amazing masterpiece Shane starring by Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance. The iconic line "Shane. Come Back!"
Jean's last film and the only one that captured her in glorious Technicolor.
@@thomast8539that's right
The boy was 11 at the time this movie was made. He died in a car accident in 1972, in Lakewood Colorado at 30 years old. His name was Brandon deWilde.
Classic Movie!! More movies from that era please ! Alan Ladd's son in real life will grow up and run 20th Century-Fox Studios in the 70's. He was the studio head that said yes to George Lucas to make "Star Wars" . Later as a independent producer in the 80's "The Ladd Company" would produce "The Right Stuff" and other top notch movies !
Hi Dawn, Alan Ladd(Shane) who was a very popular actor of Hollywood's Golden Age, was also a depressant. His mother commited suicide in front of him when he was a young man, which affected him greatly for the rest of his life. As Ladd's career waned in the early 60s, his depression became more prominant, enhancing his alcoholism, and pill intake. In 1964, at the age of 50, Ladd was found dead in his bed. The coroner report ruled the death an accidental death as a result of mixing alcohol with barbituates to combat his chronic insomnia. Many believe Ladd committed suicide, and that his death was not accidental. Two years prior, he shot himself in the chest, in which Ladd said was an accident due to tripping and falling while holding a gun, and that the gun accidentally discharged, but many believe it was an unsuccesful suicide attempt. Ladd's last movie 'The Carpetbaggers' which was released in 1964 posthumously was a big hit with the public. Many people believe, and myself, that Shane was the greatest western ever made, and by your reaction, you might think so also. RIP Alan Ladd.
Jean Arthur, then age 50, came out of semi-retirement to play Marian Starrett, largely as a favor to her friend, director George Stevens. She would retire completely from the film business after this picture. Also in this: future TV stars Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction) and a small role for Nancy Kulp (Miss Jane on The Beverly Hillbillies).
Ten years later, the little boy in this film, Brandon deWilde, was in another great Western film, Hud (1963) It stars Paul Newman (as Hud), and Brandon plays his teenage nephew who's torn between Hud's ne'er-do-well lifestyle and the values of his deeply moral grandfather. Great film and definitely worth a look. As a bonus, it also stars Patricia Neal in a very earthy, sexy performance as the world-weary housekeeper at the ranch who both Paul and Brandon become interested in.
The guy who wrote Hud also wrote Brokeback Mountain
Hud is a highly overlooked movie.
Brandon deWilde and Patricia Neal were also both in "In Harm's Way" along with John Wayne.
Was his voice annoying in Hud too?
@@soundrevolver886 And Lonesome Dove!
the book the film is based on is a little more realistic in that shane is actually shot while wiping out the bad guys but it isn't clear how bad he's wounded or if he might die later he manages to mount his horse and leave town with the little guy yelling "Shane! Shane!" after him of course⚛😀
Alan Ladd was a successful and popular leading man in the 40s & 50s. He was also fairly short and often would be stood on a box for romantic closeups. His breakout movie was the film noir _This Gun for Hire_ (1942), also starring the stunning Veronica Lake in one of her best performances. Sadly, Ladd died in 1964 at the age of fifty.
Stonewall Torrey was played by Elisha Cook, Jr. whom you met in _The Maltese Falcon._ He played Wilmer, Gutman's (Sydney Greenstreet) young henchman.
Jack Palance (Jack Wilson) played mostly villains and tough guys his entire career. He was nominated for the Oscar three times, including for his role in _Shane,_ winning once: Best Supporting Actor in the 1991 Western comedy _City Slickers._ Among his other awards he won an Emmy award for the 1957 television drama, _Requiem for a Heavyweight._
Elisha Cook, Jr was also Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law in an episode of Star Trek: TOS.
Alan Ladd was only 5'6" tall, but, like Tom Cruise, he was good at projecting the image of being taller, or at least the image that his height was unimportant. Veronica Lake was his perfect costar -- her "official" Hollywood height was 5'2", but she was actually not quite 5'.
Alan Ladd was a star athlete in high school & was photogenic but he worked in an era of tall Western stars like John Wayne & Gary Cooper, making it difficult to not be self concious about his height, even though in the 1940's & '50's, 5'6" although short, wasn't excessively short relative to average. Unfortunately, despite being a huge star whom women swooned over, it caused him to suffer from Imposter Syndrome. It may have resulted in his depression & alcoholism, leading to his relatively early death.
“I would think of him most vividly in that single flashing instant when he whirled to shoot Fletcher on the balcony at Grafton’s saloon. I would see again the power and grace of coordinate force beautiful beyond comprehension. I would see the man and the weapon wedded in one indivisible deadliness. I would see the man and the tool, a good man and a good tool, doing what had to be done”
― Jack Schaefer, Shane
Directed by George Steven's, who filmed the liberation of the Nazi death camps. He never made a war movie but this is best understood in light of the returning WWII veteran, a good man who saw/did some bad things but came back to build a community. An iconic film a ND great ending. The sound is fantastic. And the last movie performance I believe of the great Jean Arthur, who gets top billing you'll notice. Check out her in other films. My fave is The More the Merrier.
THE ULTIMATE WESTERN,im glad she is doing these classic films and western from hollywoods golden age
This was my mom’s favorite western! She was from Ireland 🇮🇪 RIP 🪦 MOM 😢 💔
Your mom had wonderful taste in movies.
This is a masterpiece of westerns.
Dawn: "This is lovely. I could just watch this--like the whole movie could just be this--and I would be happy. It would get 'Best Movie Ever'. It doesn't need any action or killing or fighting."
Also Dawn: "Or, you can smash it across his head, and then use the end bit, and--and jam it in his eye. Show him who's boss."
Jean Arthurs last film, and her first one in color. She started in silents in the 20's and was a top star in the 30's and 40's doing comedies. You will love her screwball comedies, other commenters have already recommended some of them. She is in her 50's in this movie, 12 years older than Alan Ladd, 8 years older than Van Heflin and 3 years older than Fred the grey bearded homesteader. Such a lovely women. Always a delight to see her in a movie.
Yes she was quite the dish in the 30sand 40s and a great comedic actress. Her movies are worth checking out.
She was excellently cast. She was an experienced actress who could carry the weight of the role.
My parents named me Shane after this movie, it's strange how a name can shape your future before you get near it
One of the strangest things about this film is Marion who was played by Jean Arthur. The weird thing is...she was older than practically every other actor in the film, being born in 1900, eight years older than Van Heflin who played Joe, thirteen years older than Alan Ladd and nineteen years older that Jack Palance. She was ten years older than Emil Meyer who played the lead bad guy, Ryker! She was a very talented actress and looked much younger than her age. She lived to be 90 years old and outlived most of her costars in this film.
The great Jean Arthur's last movie. My eighth grade teacher read us this novel and the class loved it.
It was lovely that you got to see 'Shane'. This was my late dad's favourite movie. Whenever it was shown on TV, he would always put it on. This was the only movie that ever made him cry. Most likely it brought back sad memories of him seeing his own dad head off to fight in the 2nd world war, never to return. He was around the same age as the little boy in 'Shane'. My dad was originally from Stathkinness, Scotland, but moved to East London in the late 1950's. Thanks for watching my dad's favourite movie 👏🍻👍
The best cowboy movie ever made. For many years after kids could be
heard yelling Shane all over the place. it is a story of redemption. A mythic
man finally becoming what he was meant to be by helping some one else.
Shane is a wounded god looking to do something good before he dies.
You should definitely check out 'Pale Rider' which is basically a remake of 'Shane' but with Clint Eastwood.
They are definitely similar.
a remake of Shane as if made by Quentin Tarantino. Whereas Alan Ladd's character was a decent man, Clint Eastwood's was a scumbag. Pale Rider and Unforgiven are two of my most disliked Clint Eastwood films.
I don't quite see it as a remake, but when Clint used an ax handle in the early fight scene, that's definitely an homage to this, where an ax handle also comes to play in an early fight scene.
Pale Rider is dreadful. Imho.
@@colinglen4505 It has an 83% audience score and 93% critic score on RT so your opinion is shared only by a small minority of people.
She was in her 50's! That's how good she looked!
This was lovely! George Stevens directed comedies before the war, then he went into the war and filmed the liberation of Auschwitz. After the war... no more comedies... but a string of classics. A Place in the Sun, Giant, The Diary of Anne Frank...
Shane, released in 1953, was the first bigscreen (Vista-vision) color western film ever produced. (The format offered bigger, brighter images, but only slightly wider than standard films) It is the story of a gunfighter who comes to a recently settled farm area near a quiet town and fights for the farmers against the hard-bitten cattlemen who control the majority of the land. Based on a 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, some of the story is tied to Wyoming's Johnson County War. The physical setting is the high plains near Jackson Hole WY, with the spectacular Grand Teton massif looming in the near distance. The beauty of this film's setting was unprecedented in earlier western films. The music was stereophonic, and lent an additional grandeur to the Vista-vision presentation.
Shane won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Brandon De Wilde), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Palance), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay.
The film had an enormous cultural impact, especially the final inconic and mysterious scene. The original film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Recently, I finally learned a bit more about these camera lens setups, such as VistaVision, what they were meant to achieve, and a tiny bit about the technicolor film they were originally shot with. Fascinating stuff and it just adds to the appreciation of films and filmmakers from the 50s. Check it out!
Shane was not shot in VistaVision. That format was not introduced until the next year with White Christmas. Shane was made just as widescreen was being introduced. It was shot full frame (1.37 aspect ratio) and the top and bottom of frame cropped to create the widescreen effect.
Alan Ladd was the father of Alan Ladd Jr, who grew up to run 20th Century Fox. And was the only guy in Hollywood who took a risk and green-lit...Star Wars.
When I was a kid in the late 60s/early 70s, Jean Arthur was a drama teacher at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where my mother was getting her MA. One of Arthur's students at the time was Meryl Streep.
Jack Palance....what a star! Popular in movies from the 40s to the 90s! He won an Oscar for the billy crystal movie, city slickers! He was in his 90s and when he accepted his award, knocked out pushups on stage!
Jack Palance was born in 1919.
"Prove it..."
@@Veigueta type in here, jack Palance does pushups, accepting his award
If I remember correctly they were ONE hand push ups!!! That's even more impressive at his age!
This is the movie Laura and Professor X are watching in 'Logan' (the final X-Men movie)
The movie was made in Grand Teton National Park outside of Kelly Wyoming on mormon row, the barn was burned down from a wild fire. My niece was married at the house to the west of it.
I was 11 years old when I saw this in a theater. My brother was 9. He grew up and named his son Shane.
This has something in common with "The Searchers"
You, like a lot of other people, think Shane was in love with Joey's mom and there was something between them.
But Shane was in love with what Joey's mom represented. It's a big man (5'6" in this case) who fights to protect what someone else has.
I love that you love these old movies, ma'am!
I started baking things when i noticed how easy it was and how much better the things taste. I started with apple pies and now everyone makes me bake things for all the holidays.
Alan Ladd stood a mere five foot six. He required platforms to stand on for certain scenes. And the fight sequence he perfromed in was with future Oscar winner Ben Johnson, a real-life cowboy who drifted into show business due his horseman abilities and performed all of his own stunts. Let's not forget one of the best fight scenes in movies.
Majority of older movies will give you that wholesome feeling you enjoy. I hope you watch more of them, especially the musicals.
There's a feeling of satisfaction I get when watching an old classic movie that I seldom get when watching a more recent movie. It's the satisfaction of a story well told. If you're okay with the slower pace, which Dawn Marie seems to be, but sadly many of the younger generation are not, then these old classics will leave you with such a wonderful aftertaste in your thoughts and feelings.
Clint Eastwood's "Pale Rider" is a semi-remake of "Shane," but where the movie title signifies Death sitting upon his pale horse. It's another great Western, Dawn.
BEST western EVER. this my favorite western of all time the story of one man who tried to change what he was and in the end he realizes that every man has a destiny and you can try to change but who or what you are comes out in the end. I believe joey would grow up to be just like his hero Shane.
I've been preaching to ALL reactors to do this movie -- Best Western, EVER! I first saw it in 1954 at age 7. I've grown up in The West for 76 years and was a film critic in the 90s. Thank you for appreciating this GOAT Classic!❤❤❤ (Next: The Searchers)😊😊
I was delighted to see you react so favorably to my favorite western, which is in fact one of my three favorite movies of all time (along with King Kong 1933 and The Wizard of Oz). In my opinion this is not only the best western ever made, but one of the best films of any kind.
George Stevens directed another great classic, Giant, with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes McCambridge, and in his final role, James Dean. It's set in west Texas and is about cattle ranchers having to give way to the encroaching oil boom.
I saw this at a drive'in movie theater with my Mom and Dad when I was Jodie's age. Left a lasting impression on me. We studied Jack Scahaefer's book "Shane" when I was in junior high and I got an A on my book report.
Little Joe hollering for Shane to come back, his cry echoing through the valley, gets me every time. Almost lost it this time.
Shane is a banger. Saw it as a kid and loved it. One of my favorite old westerns is "My Darling Clementine" from 1946, so that's a recommendation.
I grew up knowing Jack Palance (the villain) as the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not on TV, a fun 80's show about trivia and oddities. Later knew him from Burton's first Batman movie and City Slickers, but was aware by then that he was a serious actor from this age.
My Dad loves Shane, considers it one of the must-see westerns.
Wow got me with this true classic, can’t believe a young person would ever watch an classic, will always love Shane😊✌️🇺🇸
This is absolutely my favorite western. Ladd is just so understated as the gunman who cant escape his former life and who eventually uses it to bring justice for the homesteaders. Beautiful scenery in Wyoming with the Grand Tetons as backdrop. The ending always brings out the tears. I think this was the few westerns that Alan Ladd ever did, he was in some excellent film noirs, most notably This Gun for Hire with the sultry Veronica Lake.
Loved this film since i was a small boy watching it with my granda. Also when i was in jail for few month over Christmas time this came on the telly, I'd never been so happy.
Considered the first modern Western where someone being shot is shown with jolting brutality and blood. Before that, whenever someone got shot , the person would grimace, clutch their bloodless chest with no hole seen in the shirt, then fall forward slowly. In the big scene Torrey (Elisha Cook) is seen being jolted back several feet into the mud by use of a cable.
Good choice. Definitely one of the best westerns ever. Joey’s reactions during the fight scene while eating the hard candy was priceless. Jean Arthur, who played Marian, was very good in comedic roles early on. A good one to start off with is “The More The Merrier” -1943.
You can see Brandon DeWilde in the great movie "Hud" with Paul Newman. He is around 17 in this one and it's a relatively modern day western and a great story.
Brandon DeWilde was killed in a car accident, In The 1970's,, Very Tragic...
Hilarious side note about Jack Palance's character. When Ryker visits the Starrett home at night and Wilson (Palance) is there, he mounts and dismounts his horse very slowly. It seems menacing, like he's ready to draw, but the real reason was a lot funnier. Palance didn't know how to ride a horse! They filmed the sequence very slowly so Palance wouldn't fall. Parts are actually used in reverse, like when Wilson is remounting. Palance didn't know how...so they had him dismount very slowly and then reversed the film to make it look like he was getting back on the horse. Film tricks!
The cinematography in this film is something special the style is unique and extremely memorable. As always loved the video Dawn. xxx
The Grand Tetons in Wyoming are beautiful
@Esus4 I would love to visit that part of the US it definitely on my bucket list of places to go to. It looks beautiful.
5:14 Dawn Saying "The whole movie could just be this (Shane and the family bonding and working the homestead), and I would be happy" and her taste for westerns makes me think she would like "Will Penny" (1967) starring Charlton Heston.
Shane is one of the best Westerns ever made. Jack Palance (Jack Wilson) is also one of the best villain actors of all time.
One of the greatest Westerns of all time. Even if someone isn't a fan of Westerns, I still recommend they see Shane.
Brandon DeWilde died at age 30 in Denver from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident... He was in In Harms Way as John Wayne's son.
Car wreck. He was performing in a play at Elitch Gardens and was driving his van to see his pregnant wife about to deliver. He hit some roadside construction equipment & broke his neck. (I live here & remember it well.)
@@chetcarman3530 Thanks for the correction. I used to live in Brighton.
The cinematography in this film is amazing. One of best reasons for watching this movie is the natural scenery. The skies, the mountains, the landscape. There are people who will go through their entire lives and never notice this artistry of nature. Even dark skylines and clouds have their beauty. And Autumn skies can be truly mesmerizing. Oh, and the movie ain't too bad either. Great reaction.
I watched this movie with my father and grandfather during the holidays. Somewhere in northern Poland, my grandfather had a small plot of land with a "Gypsy wagon" on it . With straw-stuffed mattresses and a small tourist TV. About 35-something years ago... In our parts western were still very popular although they were almost dead in America.
They actually remade this movie in the 1980’s with Clint Eastwood… instead of being called Shane, Clint was a Preacher (former gunfighter) with no name (in traditional Clint fashion) … and instead of a boy, the kid was a girl … and the settlers are gold miners instead of farmers … but the plot is the same … You should check it out … it’s called “Pale Rider”
Legendary western. And it's rare for a western to show you the human side of the villains and give reason for why they are the way they are. You can understand their side of it.
The wonderful Elisha Cook Jr., who played Stonewall Torrey, also played Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon, which Dawn previously reacted to.
I'm still chuckling over, "I wonder what kind of pie that is? I bet it's the best pie in the world," said with such seriousness. From whatever angle you lo at her, Dawn seems to be something special.
Dawn Marie just so you know, this is one of the most beloved films for some people of all time!!!!!!!
Saw Shane in the cinema when it first came out
You really played a great movie, Dawn Marie. It's the kind of movie that I like to watch.
The "Culpeper Cattle Company" is one of the most realistic westerns and must see.
Thanks for sharing your reaction with us. I was named after the main charter in this movie. My dear departed folks got to know Alan Ladd when he made movies in SW Utah, that's why they named me Shane. Thanks for your channel.
I'm so glad you did Shane, one of my favorite westerns. Trivia, the bar fight scene took 3 weeks to film. Exterior scenes where shot in Wyoming's Grand Teton mountains, absolutely eye popping.
Jean Arthur, the wife, is an exceptional actor. May I suggest "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"? An excellent film starring Ms. Arthur and Jimmy Stewart. I love watching these films with you, you have a great sense of humor. Thank you.
A top movie of any kind, George Stevens was a master director. Van Heflin was a great actor and Jean Arthur is my fav. Actress ever, this was her last movie, she was like 51. If you get a chance to Watch "Mr. Smith goes to Washington or Mr. Deeds Goes to Town remember this was her, she's just much older.
My Fav. Western ever, sorry Duke, but t has everything, scenery, dancing, music, hero.
P.S. What most do not get, via Marian & Shane was she had feelings for him as a person, not as a man per se. She knew he was trapped in a lifestyle he had chosen, one which mandated he could never fall in love with a woman and raise kids, he had to be what he was. So, she had a very deep empathy for him. And he mourned for what Starrett had, he wanted to change, meet a wife and have kids, but after trying, he knew it would never work.
I remember this movie. I saw it at the drive inn when I was a kid.
True story: My Dad was assigned to Mountain Home Air Force Base in Boise, Idaho during his service in the Korean War. On his way there with my mother and older sister (who was a baby at the time) he passed through Jackson Hole, Wyoming where this movie was filmed. The exterior sets were still up.
Finally. Thank you. My favorite western ever. Glad someone did it.
You’re becoming a movie expert seeing all the best movies ever.
One of the greatest westerns ever made. That ending.
Dawn,so glad you watched this,it's an early classic western,I saw this about 60yrs ago and am so glad to watch it with you..Take care.
What too few realize is that Shane dies in the ending, bleeding out from his wound as he rode off. Thats why he wouldn't go back and would not answer Joey as he called after Shane.
You just got picked one of the best movies ever made. Congratulations !
Brandon deWilde (Joey) grew up, an actor. He was a co-star in John Wayne's IN HARMS WAY (1964). But he was killed in 1972 in a traffic accident.
You asked about the actor that played Joey (Brandon De Wilde). He had an active and successful career, until he tragically died in an accident at age 30.
17:35 There is Elisha Cooke Jr, the consummate character seen in the Maltese Falcon. He had a long career of decades...
Should be an award for the Dog, who was smart enough to get out of the Bar, because he knew there was going to be trouble.
First watch for me too, even though I've known about it forever, and DM made it extra special
I'm so glad you reacted to "Shane". My favorite western and shoot out scene at the end.
Shane is my favorite western!
Shane and Old Yeller! Classics!!
In case you missed it, the question of whether Shane was shot at the end of the movie, and rides off to die, has been debated ever since the movie was released.
My 2 cents is that he dies at the end of the movie. His ascending up the mountain is his redemption on his way to heaven, combined with his body posture he is dead. His death and Wilson's death represents the end of an era which goes back to Joe's speech about a real town with a church and a school.
A belly wound in the middle of nowhere was likely a death sentence indeed. Shane handled himself like a champ, right up to the end.
And by leaving, thogh I think Shane is dying, he also breaks any possible future vengeance or violence because of his death, that could have been done by the boy.
Rule #1: cowboys always ride off into the sunset. whether the live or die no one will ever know.
@@AI_Image_Master Yeah - I think its also telling that Joey calls out after him that "Ive got things for you to do" - seems like Shane doesnt have anything to do...
Shane is in my top twenty movies. It's just beautifully filmed. With a wonderful cast. Thank you Dawn for sharing it for others to experience ❤
I mentioned this movie along with "Pale Rider" in "The Outlaw Josie Wales" comments. "Pale Rider" is the Clint Eastwood version of this movie.
Turkey and pie! We had that last week for thanksgiving and lots of it, so good!
This is one a lot of people overlook. Glad you didn't let this one slip by!
Lovely reaction ! You never fail to appreciate old classics