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Shane (film)

January 01, 1970

Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin. Released by Paramount Pictures,[4][5] the film is noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre.[6] The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie Jr.,[7] based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer.[8] Its Oscar-winning cinematography was by Loyal Griggs.

Shane
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge Stevens
Screenplay by
Based onShane
by Jack Schaefer
Produced byGeorge Stevens
Starring
CinematographyLoyal Griggs
Edited by
  • William Hornbeck
  • Tom McAdoo
Music byVictor Young
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • April 23, 1953 (1953-04-23)
Running time
118 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[2]
Box office$9 million (U.S. and Canada rentals) [3]

Shane was the last feature film and the only color film of Arthur's career.[9] It also features Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer, Elisha Cook Jr., Edgar Buchanan, and Ben Johnson.[6][7] It was listed as number 45 in the 2007 edition of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list, and number three on AFI's 10 Top 10 in the Western category.

In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot edit

 
Shane (Alan Ladd) and Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur)

Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past,[6] rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889. A drifter, he is hired as a farmhand by hardscrabble rancher Joe Starrett, who is homesteading with his wife, Marian, and their young son, Joey. Starrett tells Shane that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's settlers. Though they have claimed their land legally under the Homestead Acts, a ruthless cattle baron, Rufus Ryker, has hired various rogues and henchmen to harass them and force them out of the valley.

Shane goes to town alone to buy supplies at Grafton's, a general store with an adjacent saloon. Shane enters the saloon, where Ryker's men are drinking, and orders a soda pop for Joey. Chris Calloway, one of Ryker's men, ridicules and taunts Shane by throwing his drink on him, but Shane ignores him and leaves. On Shane's next trip to town with the Starretts and other homesteaders, he defeats Calloway, and then he and Starrett win a bar room brawl against most of Ryker's other men. Ryker promises the next fight will be with guns. Ryker hires Jack Wilson, an unscrupulous and notoriously skilled gunfighter. Joey admires Shane, much to his mother's chagrin, after Shane demonstrates his shooting skills.

Frank "Stonewall" Torrey, a hot-tempered ex-Confederate homesteader, is taunted and forced to draw his gun by Wilson, who then shoots Torrey dead outside the saloon. At Torrey's funeral, the settlers discuss abandoning their struggle and leaving the valley, but after witnessing one of their homesteads being destroyed in a fire set by Ryker's men, they find new resolve to continue the fight. Ryker concludes Starrett is primarily responsible for their resolve.

With the purpose of killing him, Ryker invites Starrett to a meeting at the saloon, ostensibly to negotiate a settlement. Calloway, no longer loyal to Ryker, warns Shane of the double cross. Resolved to protect Starrett from an ambush, Shane intervenes, even knocking Starrett unconscious to save him. Shane rides to town with Joey following on foot to watch the fight. Shane kills Wilson, Ryker, and Ryker's brother, but is injured. Outside, Shane sees Joey, who notices that Shane is bleeding. In an iconic closing scene, Shane bids farewell and rides out of the valley, ignoring Joey's desperate cries of "Shane! Come back!"

Cast edit

Production edit

 
Behind the scenes of the filming of Shane.

Shane was expensive for a Western movie at the time with a cost of $3.1 million.[10] It was the first film to be projected in "flat" widescreen, a format that Paramount invented to offer audiences a wider panorama than television could provide.[11]

Although never explicitly stated, the basic plot elements of Shane were derived from the 1892 Johnson County War in Wyoming, the archetypal cattlemen/homesteaders conflict, which also served as the background for The Virginian and Heaven's Gate.[12] The physical setting is the high plains near Jackson, Wyoming, and many shots feature the Grand Teton massif looming in the near distance. The fictional town and Starrett homestead were constructed for the film near Kelly, in the Jackson Hole valley, and demolished after filming was completed. One vintage structure that appeared briefly in the film, the Ernie Wright Cabin (now popularly referred to by locals as the "Shane Cabin") still stands, but is steadily deteriorating due to its classification as "ruins" by the National Park Service.[13]

Ladd disliked and was uncomfortable with guns; Shane's shooting demonstration for Joey required 116 takes.[14] A careful review of Shane's gun-skill demonstration to Joey shows Alan Ladd firing with his eyes closed. Later, in the saloon battle, Ladd's pistol is pointed well away from the man he shoots, especially the final scene- where he kills Ryker's brother. Palance was nervous around horses, and had great difficulty with mounting and dismounting. After very many attempts, he finally executed a flawless dismount, which Stevens then used for all of the Wilson character's dismounts and—run in reverse—his mounts as well. Palance looked so awkward on horseback that Stevens was forced to replace Wilson's introductory ride into town astride his galloping horse with Palance riding at walking pace.[15] Stevens later noted that the change actually made Wilson's entrance more dramatic and menacing.[16]

The final scene, in which the wounded Shane explains to a distraught Joey why he has to leave ("There's no living with a killing"), was a moving moment for the entire cast and crew, except Brandon deWilde. "Every time Ladd spoke his lines of farewell, deWilde crossed his eyes and stuck out his tongue, making Ladd laugh. Finally, Ladd called to the boy's father, 'Make the kid stop or I'll beat him over the head.' DeWilde behaved."[15]

Casting edit

 
Alan Ladd as Shane

Director George Stevens originally wanted Montgomery Clift and William Holden for the Shane and Starrett roles; when both proved unavailable, Stevens asked Paramount executive Y. Frank Freeman for a list of available actors with current contracts; within three minutes, he chose Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, and Jean Arthur. Shane was Arthur's first cinematic role in five years, and her last, at the age of 50, though she later appeared in theater, and a short-lived television series. She accepted the part at the request of Stevens, who had directed her in The Talk of the Town (1942) with Cary Grant and Ronald Colman, and The More the Merrier (1943) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.[17]

When asked if he enjoyed the movie, the author of Shane, Jack Schaefer, replied, “Yeah, I did, all except for that runt", referring to the five-foot-six-inch (168 cm) Ladd.[18] In 1989, Schaefer told the Oberlin alumni magazine that his Shane character was supposed to be a “dark, deadly person" whom he had hoped would be played by George Raft.[19]

Technical details edit

Although the film was shot using the standard 1.37:1 Academy ratio, Paramount picked Shane to debut their new wide-screen system because it was composed largely of long and medium shots that would not be compromised by cropping the image. Using a newly cut aperture plate in the movie projector, and a wider-angle lens, the film was exhibited in first-run venues at an aspect ratio of 1.66:1. For its premier, the studio replaced the 34-by-25-foot screen in Radio City Music Hall with one measuring 50 feet wide by 30 feet high.[20][21] Paramount produced all of its subsequent films at that ratio until 1954, when they switched to 1.85:1.[11] Shane was originally released in April 1953 with a conventional optical soundtrack, but as its popularity grew, a new three-track, stereophonic soundtrack was recorded and played on an interlocking 35 mm magnetic reel in the projection booth.[22]

Stevens wanted to demonstrate to audiences "the horrors of violence". To emphasize the terrible power of gunshots, he created a cannon-like sound effect by firing a large-caliber weapon into a garbage can. In addition, he had the two principal shooting victims—Palance and Elisha Cook Jr.—rigged with hidden wires that jerked them violently backward when shot. These innovations, according to film historian Jay Hyams, marked the beginning of graphic violence in Western movies. He quotes Sam Peckinpah: "When Jack Palance shot Elisha Cook Jr. in Shane, things started to change."[12]

Reception edit

"That's just what I need – to get advice from a guy who never saw Shane."

—Henry Winkler as Arthur Fonzarelli, Happy Days[12]

Shane premiered in New York City at Radio City Music Hall on April 23, 1953,[21] and grossed $114,000 in its four weeks there.[23] In all, the film earned about $9 million in theater rentals from the United States and Canada.[3] By one estimate, that translates into about $20 million in actual box-office receipts.[24]

Bosley Crowther called the film a "rich and dramatic mobile painting of the American frontier". He continued:

Shane contains something more than the beauty and the grandeur of the mountains and plains, drenched by the brilliant Western sunshine and the violent, torrential, black-browed rains. It contains a tremendous comprehension of the bitterness and passion of the feuds that existed between the new homesteaders and the cattlemen on the open range. It contains a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gunfighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code. And it also contains a very wonderful understanding of the spirit of a little boy amid all the tensions and excitements and adventures of a frontier home.

Crowther called "the concept and the presence" of Joey, the little boy played by Brandon deWilde, "key to permit[ting] a refreshing viewpoint on material that's not exactly new. For it's this youngster's frank enthusiasms and naive reactions that are made the solvent of all the crashing drama in A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s script."[25]

Woody Allen has called Shane "George Stevens' masterpiece", on his 2001 list of great American films, along with The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, White Heat, Double Indemnity, The Informer, and The Hill. Shane, he wrote, "is a great movie and can hold its own with any film, whether it's a Western or not."[26]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Shane has a 97% critical approval rating, based on 33 reviews.[27]

Influence on later works edit

The 1966 TV series Shane starring David Carradine was directly based on the film.

The 1980 Japanese film A Distant Cry from Spring (遙かなる山の呼び声) features a similar plot.[28]

In 1981, British singer Kim Wilde released the song "Shane" as the B-side to her single "Chequered Love". The lyrics, written by Wilde's brother Ricky and her father Marty, deal with the impressions of the movie[29]

The 1984 song by Roger Waters, "The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking", includes the lyric "Do you remember Shane?" and the recording features interspersed audio from the film.

The 1985 song by Haustor, "Šejn" from their album "Bolero" is named after the film.[30]

The 1987 postapocalyptic movie, Steel Dawn, closely follows the plot of Shane, according to Walter Goodman of The New York Times.[31]

In his 1997 album Arizona Bay, Bill Hicks parodies Jack Palance's role in Shane with track 8, "Bullies of the World", likening an unspecified "we", the arms-producing countries, to Jack Wilson taunting the farmer to "pick up the gun".

In the 1998 action thriller film The Negotiator, the two leading characters have a discussion about Western genre films, Shane in particular. Arguing about the ending, Chris Sabian says Shane died, and Danny Roman says "he's slumped 'cause he's shot. Slumped don't mean dead."[32]

In the 2013 Hallmark series Signed, Sealed, Delivered, "Shane, come back", was referenced.

The 2017 superhero film Logan drew substantial thematic inspiration from Shane, and formally acknowledged the influence with a series of specific dialog references and scene clips. Shane's farewell words to Joey are recited, verbatim, in the closing scene.[33]

Awards and honors edit

Academy Award
Academy Award nominations
American Film Institute recognition

Copyright status in Japan edit

In 2006, Shane was the subject of litigation in Japan involving its copyright status in that country. Two Japanese companies began selling budget-priced copies of Shane in 2003, based on a Japanese copyright law that at the time protected cinematographic works for 50 years from the year of their release. After the Japanese legislature amended the law in 2004 to extend the duration of motion picture copyrights from 50 to 70 years, Paramount and its Japanese distributor filed suit against the two companies. A Japanese court ruled that the amendment was not retroactive, so any film released during or prior to 1953 remained in the public domain in Japan.[35]

References edit

  1. ^ "Shane (U)". British Board of Film Classification. May 11, 1960. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
  2. ^ Christiansen, Richard (August 13, 2000). "'Shane' Director Took on the Western And Won". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  3. ^ a b Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M-184. ISSN 0042-2738.
  4. ^ Variety film review; April 15, 1953, page 6.
  5. ^ Harrison's Reports film review; April 18, 1953, page 63.
  6. ^ a b c Andrew, Geoff. "Shane", Time Out Film Guide, Time Out Guides Ltd., London, 2006.
  7. ^ a b "Shane". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved January 25, 2024.
  8. ^ Schaefer, Jack (1983). Shane (Paperback ed.). New York City: Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0553271102.
  9. ^ Vermilye 2012, p. 143.
  10. ^ "Berlin Analyzes Goldwyn's Show-Cents". Variety. March 10, 1954. p. 2.
  11. ^ a b Weaver, William R. (March 25, 1953). "All Para. Films Set for 3 to 5 Aspect Ratio". Motion Picture Daily. p. 1.
  12. ^ a b c Hyams 1984, p. 115.
  13. ^ Shane Movie Locations at bestofthetetons.com, retrieved March 7, 2017.
  14. ^ Turner Classic Movies, TCM.com, "'Shane' (1953) – Trivia" Retrieved January 25, 2024
  15. ^ a b Hyams 1984, p. 116.
  16. ^ Shane at RogerEbert.com, retrieved April 7, 2017.
  17. ^ Brady 1950a, p. 42.
  18. ^ Boyle, Molly (March 9, 2018). "Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  19. ^ . April 15, 2007. Archived from the original on April 15, 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  20. ^ "Hall Alters Projection Equipment for 'Shane'". Motion Picture Daily, April 8, 1953.
  21. ^ a b Lev 2003, p. 116.
  22. ^ "Midwest 'Shane' Premiere at Lake". Motion Picture Daily, May 13, 1953.
  23. ^ "'Wax,' 'Shane' End Sturdy B'Way Runs". Motion Picture Daily, May 20, 1953.
  24. ^ Box Office Information for Shane. The Numbers. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  25. ^ Crowther, Bosley (April 24, 1953). "Shane (1953)". The New York Times. Retrieved September 8, 2014.
  26. ^ Lyman, Rick (August 3, 2001). "Watching Movies With: Woody Allen; Coming Back To 'Shane'". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  27. ^ Shane at Rotten Tomatoes
  28. ^ Lahiri, H. (2015). The tragic hero as drifter in Yoji Yamada’s films. Offscreen, 19(8).
  29. ^ "This song was written by Ricky and Dad, about the movie Shane".
  30. ^ ŠTA JE HAUSTORU BILA INSPIRACIJA: Kako je nastala pesma "Šejn", retrieved March 10, 2024
  31. ^ "Movie Review: Steel Dawn (1987)". The New York Times. United States. November 6, 1987. Retrieved 6 Oct 2015.
  32. ^ "He's slumped because he's shot. Slumped don't mean dead".
  33. ^ What was that Western Movie in Logan? at geekendgladiators.com, retrieved March 13, 2017.
  34. ^ "Top Western". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 18, 2008.
  35. ^ Mitani, Hidehiro (Autumn–Winter 2007). . CASRIP Newsletter. UW School of Law. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2015.

Further reading edit

  • Vermilye, Jerry (2012). Jean Arthur: A Biofilmography. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse. p. 143. ISBN 978-1467043274.
  • Hyams, Jay (1984). The Life and Times of the Western Movie (1st ed.). New York City: Gallery Books. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-0831755454.
  • Brady, Thomas F. (March 1, 1950a). "Paramount Gets Option on Novel: to Enact Title Role". The New York Times. New York City. p. 42. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  • Brady, Thomas F. (March 24, 1950b). "Warners Acquire 'Winterset' Rights: Studio Buys Screen Privilege From R.K.O. and May Star Humphrey Bogart in It Of Local Origin". The New York Times. New York City. p. 29. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  • NY Times Staff (September 27, 1950). "Alan Ladd to Star in Historical Film: He Will Appear in 'Quantrell's Raiders,' Which Wallis Will Produce at Paramount U.-I. Buys "Fifth Estate"". The New York Times. New York City. p. 48. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  • van Heerden, Bill (1998). Film and Television In-Jokes: Nearly 2,000 Intentional References, Parodies, Allusions, Personal Touches, Cameos, Spoofs and Homages (Paperback ed.). McFarland & Company. p. 162. ISBN 978-1476612065. Cliff Robertson appears as the villain Shame (a takeoff on Alan Ladd's western hero, Shane, 1953)
  • Lev, Peter (2003). Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959. Oakland, California: University of California Press. p. 116. ISBN 9780520249660.
  • Walt Farmer (2001). . Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2011. CD-ROM.
  • Slotkin, Richard (1992). "Killer Elite: The Cult of the Gunfighter, 1950–1953". Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. New York: HarperPerennial. pp. 379–404. ISBN 0-06-097575-X.

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Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd Jean Arthur and Van Heflin Released by Paramount Pictures 4 5 the film is noted for its landscape cinematography editing performances and contributions to the genre 6 The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A B Guthrie Jr 7 based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer 8 Its Oscar winning cinematography was by Loyal Griggs ShaneTheatrical release posterDirected byGeorge StevensScreenplay byA B Guthrie Jr Jack Sher additional dialogue Based onShaneby Jack SchaeferProduced byGeorge StevensStarringAlan Ladd Jean Arthur Van Heflin Brandon deWilde Jack PalanceCinematographyLoyal GriggsEdited byWilliam Hornbeck Tom McAdooMusic byVictor YoungColor processTechnicolorDistributed byParamount PicturesRelease dateApril 23 1953 1953 04 23 Running time118 minutes 1 CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 1 5 million 2 Box office 9 million U S and Canada rentals 3 Shane was the last feature film and the only color film of Arthur s career 9 It also features Brandon deWilde Jack Palance Emile Meyer Elisha Cook Jr Edgar Buchanan and Ben Johnson 6 7 It was listed as number 45 in the 2007 edition of AFI s 100 Years 100 Movies list and number three on AFI s 10 Top 10 in the Western category In 1993 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally historically or aesthetically significant Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Casting 3 2 Technical details 4 Reception 5 Influence on later works 6 Awards and honors 7 Copyright status in Japan 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksPlot edit nbsp Shane Alan Ladd and Marian Starrett Jean Arthur Shane a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past 6 rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889 A drifter he is hired as a farmhand by hardscrabble rancher Joe Starrett who is homesteading with his wife Marian and their young son Joey Starrett tells Shane that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley s settlers Though they have claimed their land legally under the Homestead Acts a ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker has hired various rogues and henchmen to harass them and force them out of the valley Shane goes to town alone to buy supplies at Grafton s a general store with an adjacent saloon Shane enters the saloon where Ryker s men are drinking and orders a soda pop for Joey Chris Calloway one of Ryker s men ridicules and taunts Shane by throwing his drink on him but Shane ignores him and leaves On Shane s next trip to town with the Starretts and other homesteaders he defeats Calloway and then he and Starrett win a bar room brawl against most of Ryker s other men Ryker promises the next fight will be with guns Ryker hires Jack Wilson an unscrupulous and notoriously skilled gunfighter Joey admires Shane much to his mother s chagrin after Shane demonstrates his shooting skills Frank Stonewall Torrey a hot tempered ex Confederate homesteader is taunted and forced to draw his gun by Wilson who then shoots Torrey dead outside the saloon At Torrey s funeral the settlers discuss abandoning their struggle and leaving the valley but after witnessing one of their homesteads being destroyed in a fire set by Ryker s men they find new resolve to continue the fight Ryker concludes Starrett is primarily responsible for their resolve With the purpose of killing him Ryker invites Starrett to a meeting at the saloon ostensibly to negotiate a settlement Calloway no longer loyal to Ryker warns Shane of the double cross Resolved to protect Starrett from an ambush Shane intervenes even knocking Starrett unconscious to save him Shane rides to town with Joey following on foot to watch the fight Shane kills Wilson Ryker and Ryker s brother but is injured Outside Shane sees Joey who notices that Shane is bleeding In an iconic closing scene Shane bids farewell and rides out of the valley ignoring Joey s desperate cries of Shane Come back Cast editAlan Ladd as Shane Jean Arthur as Marian Starrett Van Heflin as Joe Starrett Brandon deWilde as Joey Starrett Jack Palance as Jack Wilson billed as Walter Jack Palance Ben Johnson as Chris Calloway Edgar Buchanan as Fred Lewis Emile Meyer as Rufus Ryker Elisha Cook Jr as Frank Stonewall Torrey Douglas Spencer as Axel Swede Shipstead John Dierkes as Morgan Ryker Ellen Corby as Mrs Liz Torrey Paul McVey as Sam Grafton store owner John Miller as Will Atkey bartender Edith Evanson as Mrs Shipstead Leonard Strong as Ernie Wright Ray Spiker as Axel Johnson Homesteader Janice Carroll as Susan Lewis Martin Mason as Ed Howells Helen Brown as Martha Lewis Nancy Kulp as Mrs HowellsProduction edit nbsp Behind the scenes of the filming of Shane Shane was expensive for a Western movie at the time with a cost of 3 1 million 10 It was the first film to be projected in flat widescreen a format that Paramount invented to offer audiences a wider panorama than television could provide 11 Although never explicitly stated the basic plot elements of Shane were derived from the 1892 Johnson County War in Wyoming the archetypal cattlemen homesteaders conflict which also served as the background for The Virginian and Heaven s Gate 12 The physical setting is the high plains near Jackson Wyoming and many shots feature the Grand Teton massif looming in the near distance The fictional town and Starrett homestead were constructed for the film near Kelly in the Jackson Hole valley and demolished after filming was completed One vintage structure that appeared briefly in the film the Ernie Wright Cabin now popularly referred to by locals as the Shane Cabin still stands but is steadily deteriorating due to its classification as ruins by the National Park Service 13 Ladd disliked and was uncomfortable with guns Shane s shooting demonstration for Joey required 116 takes 14 A careful review of Shane s gun skill demonstration to Joey shows Alan Ladd firing with his eyes closed Later in the saloon battle Ladd s pistol is pointed well away from the man he shoots especially the final scene where he kills Ryker s brother Palance was nervous around horses and had great difficulty with mounting and dismounting After very many attempts he finally executed a flawless dismount which Stevens then used for all of the Wilson character s dismounts and run in reverse his mounts as well Palance looked so awkward on horseback that Stevens was forced to replace Wilson s introductory ride into town astride his galloping horse with Palance riding at walking pace 15 Stevens later noted that the change actually made Wilson s entrance more dramatic and menacing 16 The final scene in which the wounded Shane explains to a distraught Joey why he has to leave There s no living with a killing was a moving moment for the entire cast and crew except Brandon deWilde Every time Ladd spoke his lines of farewell deWilde crossed his eyes and stuck out his tongue making Ladd laugh Finally Ladd called to the boy s father Make the kid stop or I ll beat him over the head DeWilde behaved 15 Casting edit nbsp Alan Ladd as Shane Director George Stevens originally wanted Montgomery Clift and William Holden for the Shane and Starrett roles when both proved unavailable Stevens asked Paramount executive Y Frank Freeman for a list of available actors with current contracts within three minutes he chose Alan Ladd Van Heflin and Jean Arthur Shane was Arthur s first cinematic role in five years and her last at the age of 50 though she later appeared in theater and a short lived television series She accepted the part at the request of Stevens who had directed her in The Talk of the Town 1942 with Cary Grant and Ronald Colman and The More the Merrier 1943 for which she received her only Oscar nomination 17 When asked if he enjoyed the movie the author of Shane Jack Schaefer replied Yeah I did all except for that runt referring to the five foot six inch 168 cm Ladd 18 In 1989 Schaefer told the Oberlin alumni magazine that his Shane character was supposed to be a dark deadly person whom he had hoped would be played by George Raft 19 Technical details edit Although the film was shot using the standard 1 37 1 Academy ratio Paramount picked Shane to debut their new wide screen system because it was composed largely of long and medium shots that would not be compromised by cropping the image Using a newly cut aperture plate in the movie projector and a wider angle lens the film was exhibited in first run venues at an aspect ratio of 1 66 1 For its premier the studio replaced the 34 by 25 foot screen in Radio City Music Hall with one measuring 50 feet wide by 30 feet high 20 21 Paramount produced all of its subsequent films at that ratio until 1954 when they switched to 1 85 1 11 Shane was originally released in April 1953 with a conventional optical soundtrack but as its popularity grew a new three track stereophonic soundtrack was recorded and played on an interlocking 35 mm magnetic reel in the projection booth 22 Stevens wanted to demonstrate to audiences the horrors of violence To emphasize the terrible power of gunshots he created a cannon like sound effect by firing a large caliber weapon into a garbage can In addition he had the two principal shooting victims Palance and Elisha Cook Jr rigged with hidden wires that jerked them violently backward when shot These innovations according to film historian Jay Hyams marked the beginning of graphic violence in Western movies He quotes Sam Peckinpah When Jack Palance shot Elisha Cook Jr in Shane things started to change 12 Reception edit That s just what I need to get advice from a guy who never saw Shane Henry Winkler as Arthur Fonzarelli Happy Days 12 Shane premiered in New York City at Radio City Music Hall on April 23 1953 21 and grossed 114 000 in its four weeks there 23 In all the film earned about 9 million in theater rentals from the United States and Canada 3 By one estimate that translates into about 20 million in actual box office receipts 24 Bosley Crowther called the film a rich and dramatic mobile painting of the American frontier He continued Shane contains something more than the beauty and the grandeur of the mountains and plains drenched by the brilliant Western sunshine and the violent torrential black browed rains It contains a tremendous comprehension of the bitterness and passion of the feuds that existed between the new homesteaders and the cattlemen on the open range It contains a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gunfighters who were simply legal killers under the frontier code And it also contains a very wonderful understanding of the spirit of a little boy amid all the tensions and excitements and adventures of a frontier home Crowther called the concept and the presence of Joey the little boy played by Brandon deWilde key to permit ting a refreshing viewpoint on material that s not exactly new For it s this youngster s frank enthusiasms and naive reactions that are made the solvent of all the crashing drama in A B Guthrie Jr s script 25 Woody Allen has called Shane George Stevens masterpiece on his 2001 list of great American films along with The Treasure of the Sierra Madre White Heat Double Indemnity The Informer and The Hill Shane he wrote is a great movie and can hold its own with any film whether it s a Western or not 26 On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes Shane has a 97 critical approval rating based on 33 reviews 27 Influence on later works editThe 1966 TV series Shane starring David Carradine was directly based on the film The 1980 Japanese film A Distant Cry from Spring 遙かなる山の呼び声 features a similar plot 28 In 1981 British singer Kim Wilde released the song Shane as the B side to her single Chequered Love The lyrics written by Wilde s brother Ricky and her father Marty deal with the impressions of the movie 29 The 1984 song by Roger Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking includes the lyric Do you remember Shane and the recording features interspersed audio from the film The 1985 song by Haustor Sejn from their album Bolero is named after the film 30 The 1987 postapocalyptic movie Steel Dawn closely follows the plot of Shane according to Walter Goodman of The New York Times 31 In his 1997 album Arizona Bay Bill Hicks parodies Jack Palance s role in Shane with track 8 Bullies of the World likening an unspecified we the arms producing countries to Jack Wilson taunting the farmer to pick up the gun In the 1998 action thriller film The Negotiator the two leading characters have a discussion about Western genre films Shane in particular Arguing about the ending Chris Sabian says Shane died and Danny Roman says he s slumped cause he s shot Slumped don t mean dead 32 In the 2013 Hallmark series Signed Sealed Delivered Shane come back was referenced The 2017 superhero film Logan drew substantial thematic inspiration from Shane and formally acknowledged the influence with a series of specific dialog references and scene clips Shane s farewell words to Joey are recited verbatim in the closing scene 33 Awards and honors editAcademy Award Academy Award for Best Cinematography Color Loyal Griggs 1954 Academy Award nominations Best Actor in a Supporting Role Brandon deWilde Best Actor in a Supporting Role Jack Palance Best Director George Stevens Best Picture George Stevens Best Writing Screenplay A B Guthrie Jr American Film Institute recognition AFI s 100 Years 100 Movies No 69 AFI s 100 Years 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition No 45 AFI s 100 Years 100 Heroes amp Villains Shane Hero No 16 AFI s 100 Years 100 Movie Quotes Shane Shane Come back No 47 AFI s 100 Years 100 Cheers No 53 AFI s 10 Top 10 No 3 Western 34 Copyright status in Japan editIn 2006 Shane was the subject of litigation in Japan involving its copyright status in that country Two Japanese companies began selling budget priced copies of Shane in 2003 based on a Japanese copyright law that at the time protected cinematographic works for 50 years from the year of their release After the Japanese legislature amended the law in 2004 to extend the duration of motion picture copyrights from 50 to 70 years Paramount and its Japanese distributor filed suit against the two companies A Japanese court ruled that the amendment was not retroactive so any film released during or prior to 1953 remained in the public domain in Japan 35 nbsp Film portalReferences edit Shane U British Board of Film Classification May 11 1960 Retrieved January 25 2024 Christiansen Richard August 13 2000 Shane Director Took on the Western And Won Chicago Tribune Retrieved May 9 2019 a b Cohn Lawrence October 15 1990 All Time Film Rental Champs Variety p M 184 ISSN 0042 2738 Variety film review April 15 1953 page 6 Harrison s Reports film review April 18 1953 page 63 a b c Andrew Geoff Shane Time Out Film Guide Time Out Guides Ltd London 2006 a b Shane Turner Classic Movies Atlanta Turner Broadcasting System Time Warner Retrieved January 25 2024 Schaefer Jack 1983 Shane Paperback ed New York City Bantam Books ISBN 978 0553271102 Vermilye 2012 p 143 Berlin Analyzes Goldwyn s Show Cents Variety March 10 1954 p 2 a b Weaver William R March 25 1953 All Para Films Set for 3 to 5 Aspect Ratio Motion Picture Daily p 1 a b c Hyams 1984 p 115 Shane Movie Locations at bestofthetetons com retrieved March 7 2017 Turner Classic Movies TCM com Shane 1953 Trivia Retrieved January 25 2024 a b Hyams 1984 p 116 Shane at RogerEbert com retrieved April 7 2017 Brady 1950a p 42 Boyle Molly March 9 2018 Writer from nowhere How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself Santa Fe New Mexican Retrieved January 21 2021 Lakewood Lore Jack Schaefer April 15 2007 Archived from the original on April 15 2007 Retrieved January 21 2021 Hall Alters Projection Equipment for Shane Motion Picture Daily April 8 1953 a b Lev 2003 p 116 Midwest Shane Premiere at Lake Motion Picture Daily May 13 1953 Wax Shane End Sturdy B Way Runs Motion Picture Daily May 20 1953 Box Office Information for Shane The Numbers Retrieved April 13 2012 Crowther Bosley April 24 1953 Shane 1953 The New York Times Retrieved September 8 2014 Lyman Rick August 3 2001 Watching Movies With Woody Allen Coming Back To Shane The New York Times New York City Retrieved September 6 2016 Shane at Rotten Tomatoes Lahiri H 2015 The tragic hero as drifter in Yoji Yamada s films Offscreen 19 8 This song was written by Ricky and Dad about the movie Shane STA JE HAUSTORU BILA INSPIRACIJA Kako je nastala pesma Sejn retrieved March 10 2024 Movie Review Steel Dawn 1987 The New York Times United States November 6 1987 Retrieved 6 Oct 2015 He s slumped because he s shot Slumped don t mean dead What was that Western Movie in Logan at geekendgladiators com retrieved March 13 2017 Top Western American Film Institute Retrieved June 18 2008 Mitani Hidehiro Autumn Winter 2007 Argument for the Extension of the Copyright Protection over Cinematographic Works CASRIP Newsletter UW School of Law Archived from the original on March 30 2014 Retrieved May 27 2015 Further reading editVermilye Jerry 2012 Jean Arthur A Biofilmography Bloomington Indiana AuthorHouse p 143 ISBN 978 1467043274 Hyams Jay 1984 The Life and Times of the Western Movie 1st ed New York City Gallery Books pp 115 116 ISBN 978 0831755454 Brady Thomas F March 1 1950a Paramount Gets Option on Novel to Enact Title Role The New York Times New York City p 42 Retrieved September 6 2016 Brady Thomas F March 24 1950b Warners Acquire Winterset Rights Studio Buys Screen Privilege From R K O and May Star Humphrey Bogart in It Of Local Origin The New York Times New York City p 29 Retrieved September 6 2016 NY Times Staff September 27 1950 Alan Ladd to Star in Historical Film He Will Appear in Quantrell s Raiders Which Wallis Will Produce at Paramount U I Buys Fifth Estate The New York Times New York City p 48 Retrieved September 6 2016 van Heerden Bill 1998 Film and Television In Jokes Nearly 2 000 Intentional References Parodies Allusions Personal Touches Cameos Spoofs and Homages Paperback ed McFarland amp Company p 162 ISBN 978 1476612065 Cliff Robertson appears as the villain Shame a takeoff on Alan Ladd s western hero Shane 1953 Lev Peter 2003 Transforming the Screen 1950 1959 Oakland California University of California Press p 116 ISBN 9780520249660 Walt Farmer 2001 The Making of Shane in Jackson Hole Wyoming Archived from the original on November 10 2017 Retrieved December 4 2011 CD ROM Slotkin Richard 1992 Killer Elite The Cult of the Gunfighter 1950 1953 Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America New York HarperPerennial pp 379 404 ISBN 0 06 097575 X External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Shane film nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shane film Shane at IMDb nbsp Shane at the TCM Movie Database Shane at AllMovie Shane at the American Film Institute Catalog Shane at Rotten Tomatoes Shane at Filmsite org Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shane film amp oldid 1219755297, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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