SHANE (1952)

[The Burgomaster]

Watched it again last night for about the 10th time.  A great western.

It was filmed in 1.33:1 aspect ratio, but the color cinematography is so striking that it almost seems like a widescreen movie.

I imagine that some of the fist fights must have seemed violent (and very bloody) to audiences in 1952.  The shootings are pretty violent too (the gunshots are loud and the victims seem to be hit very hard by the bullets).

Great dialogue and great direction by George Stevens.

A landmark western that has been copied many times.

[Deej]

I've also seen Shane many, many times. I watch it at least twice a year, one of my favorite movies and definitely among my top five westerns.

After the "Did Shane Die?" debate that we had a few months ago, I finally read the book. I prefer the movie, but the book is pretty moving too. And, I've decided that Shane lived.

I highly recommend Shane, even to those who aren't fans of the western genre.

[Ash]

I have heard of this movie and have heard numerous references to it in other films but I have never seen it.

I've heard it's pretty good.

Is it in black & white or color?

Gonna have to rent it sometime.



Post Edited (05-24-04 16:05)

[trekgeezer]

It's in color Ash, Technicolor I do believe.  

I love the sets in this movie, they did a real good job giving it a definite frontier  look.

When I was little kid and saw this it really disturbed me when Jack Palance guns down  sod-buster Elisha Cook Jr.  I think this is the first time I saw someone who looked like they enjoyed killing.  But , that makes it all the better when Shane gets him in the end.

Didn't they try to make a tv series called Shane in  60's.?

[Deej]

trek_geezer wrote:

> Didn't they try to make a tv series called Shane in  60's.?
>


Yes, starring David Carradine, I think. I've never seen it, so I don't how good it was. When I was a kid they played re runs of the 1960's tv series Hondo, which was based on John Wayne's Shane rip-off of the same name. That was a good show, but only lasted a season.

[Scott]

Don't forget the great location shots from the Grand Teton Mountain range in Wyoming as the backdrop. Great film........... That gundown by Jack Palance was brutally real.






Post Edited (05-24-04 23:33)

[rlyons]

Shane: Sept 10, 1966 - Dec 31, 1966. ABC, Saturday 7:30-8:30 p.m.
David Carradine; Jill Ireland; Tom Tully; Christopher Shea*; Brett Freed; Sam Gilman. (*Mr. Shea was the original voice of Linus Van Pelt).

[Archivist]

Was that in fact the actor who played Shane who twirls the gun in the end, or was it a stunt/trick performer?  That's the only part of that movie I remember...

~Archivist~

[Scott]

How very sad, why don't you just come out and say what you want to say? Internet stalkers are the worst................................."Mfu ju cf tp !"

[odinn7]

Did I miss something? Damn me and not being able to be attached to the computer on the weekend!

"Mfu ju cf tp !" Are we talking code now?  

gooble deng hei sheeda!

Who's stalking? I guess I will have to assume it was just some new dumb-ass that felt the need to post some amazingly deep one line insight (as they quite often do) and you removed them. These people are as bad as the spammers.



Post Edited (05-23-05 07:50)

[Scott]

It was nothing odinn7 just someone in their usual drunken stuper. A internet stalker is someone who you know that has an un-natural obsession with you, with your family, with what you do, and also with what you think. They follow you for years secretly because they have nothing else going. They sometimes do it as a group so as to validate their activity in their little minds. Lack of respect for people is ultimately their undoing.

Code as you called it odinn7 is what they catch for their mis-givings. All those who have taken part over the many years can do now is pray and confess to me when they have the chance. This will help them. The stubborn will most likely suffer more than the rest in the end.  That is how it usually works. If they think they are immune because they hold some idea then they are kidding themselves.

They have gone way to far over the years to put me aside and I guess they simply don't have any respect for people or even concern for Divine Providence.

Not sure why they chose this messageboard to reveal themselves. A few months ago I also recieved written confirmation of their activities by regular postal mail by a person who has acknowledged what they have been doing to me personally over the years.

They'll  be gone from the messageboard in short time. Then we only have to watch out for the regular spammers.



Post Edited (05-24-05 02:43)

[odinn7]

Scott, I had no idea...
Why the Hell would someone feel the need to bother you (other than the general ribbing you get on here now and then)? You seem like a real nice guy and I can't believe someone would waste their time doing crap like this. How ridiculous and as you put it, sad, that someone would do this. It's too bad that the world is full of people that are so small that they need to do things like this.
Please accept my apologies Scott as I didn't mean to trivialize what's being done to you in my earlier post. I honestly thought it was just some typical one lined newbie and I had no idea of the depth of it.

[Chris]

Road Warrior is one, I'm led to believe (Max's relationship with the feral kid?), but I can't testify to that as I've yet to see it.

[odinn7]

Chris wrote:

> Road Warrior is one, I'm led to believe (Max's relationship
> with the feral kid?), but I can't testify to that as I've yet
> to see it.


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[Ed]

I hate to say this, but the kid in Shane sorta creeped me out/bugged me.  He was sorta like a "Kenny" from a Godzilla/Gamera film.  
I wanted to do a drinking game where you take a shot every time he says "Shane".  
Anyway, in general I miss the Western as a genre.  One of my all time favorite films is Silverado, and I loved the Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood).  The western was a truly American art form, except for when it was Italian, but it WANTED to be American.  
-Ed