Shane (BFI Film Classics)

By Edward Countryman

This textual content seems on the movie Shane (1983) directed through George Stevens, then considered one of Hollywood's so much profitable film-makers. within the movie, Alan Ladd performs the charismatic outsider who defends a neighborhood opposed to a predatory gang and, in so doing, transforms the lifetime of a family.

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