Movie #142: Shane

Movie #: 142
Movie Title: Shane
Year Released: 1953

Director: George Stevens
Notable Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer

Short Description: A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #45
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 4/10/2016

Grade: 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
Adjusted Grade: 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)

Rationale: Ok, enough already AFI. I'm tired of watching movies you deem as top 100 of all time. Shane was an ok movie, but considering it one of the greatest movies ever? Give me a break. I thoroughly detested the annoying kid in the movie and can't believe they wasted as much screen time as they did on him. At least I know better than to expect top of the line action from a 1953 movie because that would have been another huge disappointment. It boggles my mind how normal punches thrown in modern movies can look so real yet in movies from the '50s you can literally see gaps between the hand and someone's head during the swing. Everything else about the movie was just fine.