Shane

George Stevens · 1953 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A rider in buckskin comes down out of the Tetons into a Wyoming valley where a cattleman is squeezing homesteaders off their claims, and hires on with one family as a hand. The boy of the house watches him take a beating in the store rather than reach for his gun, and will not stop asking to be shown how it works. Stevens fired amplified charges and jerked stuntmen back on wires, making death sudden and ugly.

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