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"The greatest story of the West ever filmed!"

NR 1953 · 1h 58m
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Shane
Confrontation and Realization in the Face of Danger
Joey Shane! I knew you could, Shane. I knew it. I knew it just as well as anything. Was that him? Was that Wilson?
[after the gun battle]
Shane That was him. That was Wilson alright. He was fast - fast on the draw. Joey, what are you doing here?
Joey I'm sorry, Shane.
Shane You don't have to be. You'd better run back.
Joey Can I ride home behind you?
Shane Afraid not, Joey.
Joey Please, why not?
Shane I gotta be goin on.
Joey Why, Shane?
Shane A man has to be what he is, Joey. You can't break the mold. I tried it and it didn't work for me.
Joey We want you, Shane.
Shane Joey, there's no living with, with a killing. There's no going back from it. Right or wrong, it's a brand, a brand that sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her, tell her everything's alright, and there aren't any more guns in the valley.
Joey Shane, it's bloody. You're hurt.
Shane I'm alright, Joey. You go home to your mother and your father. And grow up to be strong and straight. And Joey, take care of them, both of them.
Joey Yes, Shane. He'd never have been able to shoot you - if you'd have seen him.
[Tears well up in Joey's eyes]
Shane Bye, little Joe.
Joey He never even would have cleared the holster, would he, Shane? Pa's got things for you to do, and Mother wants you. I know she does. Shane. Shane! Come back! Bye, Shane.
[calling after him]
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Shane
The Choice of Carrying a Sidearm
Joey Why don't you ever wear your six-shooter, Shane?
Shane Well, I guess I don't see as many bad men as you do.
Shane One, for instance, likes to have a shoulder holster. Another one puts it in his - the belt of his pants. And there are some who like two guns. But one's all you need if you can use it.
Joey Which is the best way?
Shane What I'm telling you is a good a way as any and better than most.
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Shane
The Shift from Open Range to Homesteading
Joe These old-timers, they just can't see it yet, but runnin cattle on an open range just can't go on forever. It takes too much space for too little results. Those herds aren't any good. They're all horns and bone. Now, cattle that is bred for meat and fenced in and fed right - that's the thing. You gotta pick your spot, get your land, your own land. Now a homesteader, he can't run but a few beef. But he can sure grow grain and cut hay. And then what with his garden and the hogs and milk, well, he'll make out all right. We make out, don't we, Marion?
Marion Of course.
[pause]
Joe I wouldn't ask you where you're bound.
Shane One place or another. Some place I've never been.
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The Greatest Western Film Ever Made
Taglines The Greatest Story Of the West Ever Filmed
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Shane
Defending Home and Family in Adversity
Joe Torrey was a pretty brave man, and I figure we'd be doin wrong if we wasn't the same...We can have a regular settlement here, we can have a town and churches and a school...We've just got to, that's all...We can't give up this valley and we ain't gonna do it. This is farmin country, a place where people can come and bring up their families. Who is Rufe Ryker or anyone else to run us away from our own homes? He only wants to grow his beef and what we want to grow up is families, to grow em good and grow em, grow em up strong, the way they was meant to be grown. God didn't make all this country just for one man like Ryker.
Lewis He's got it though and that's what counts.
Shane You know what he wants you to stay for? Something that means more to you than anything else - your families. Your wives and kids. Like you, Lewis, your girls; Shipstead with his boys. They've got a right to stay here and grow up and be happy. That's up to you people to have nerve enough to not give it up.
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Shane
The Nature of Tools and Responsibility
Marion Guns aren't going to be my boy's life.
Joey Why do you always have to spoil everything?
Shane A gun is a tool, Marion. No better and no worse than any other tool - an axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.
Marion We'd all be much better off if there wasn't a single gun left in this valley - including yours.
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Shane
A Decision Driven by Love and Loyalty
Marion You were through with gun-fighting?
Shane I changed my mind.
Marion Are you doing this just for me?
[softly]
Shane For you, Marion - for Joe - and little Joe.
Marion Then we'll never see you again?
Shane Never's a long time, ma'am. Tell him, tell him I was sorry.
Marion No need to tell him that.
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The Value of Observation and Awareness
Shane You were watchin me down the trail for quite a spell, weren't you?
Joey Yes I was.
Shane You know, I... hoe de hohoho I like a man who watches things go on around. It means he'll make his mark someday.
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Shane
Superstitions Affecting Decision-Making Among Friends
Chris Well now, looky here what we got. That’s one of the new ones. We call him Sody-pop.
[to Pete]
Pete Deal me out.
Chris Why, what's the matter, Pete?
Pete Just say I'm superstitious.
Chris I guess you don’t hear very well, sodbuster. I told you that if you wanted to stay healthy you’d keep out of here. Look pig farmer, you’d better get back inside with the women and kids where it’s safe.... D’you hear me? Get goin’.
[to Shane]
Shane Don’t push it, Calloway.
Chris Did you think you were goin’ to come in here and drink with the men?
Chris You ain’t going to drink that in here.
Shane You guessed it.
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A Unique Man and Film: Shane
Taglines There never was a man like SHANE. There never was a motion picture like SHANE.
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Shane
A Score to Settle in Shane
Taglines There's A Score To Settle...and This is it!
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Shane
Conflict Over a Beef Contract
Ryker Howdy Starrett.
Morgan specting trouble?
Ryker I don't want no trouble, Starrett. I came to inform ya. I got that beef contract for the reservation.
Joe Did it take this many of you to tell me that?
Ryker I mean business.
Joe Then you tend to your own.
Ryker That's just what I'm doing! I'm telling ya now, I'm gonna need all my range.
Joe Now that you've warned me, would you mind gettin off my place?
Ryker Your place! You're gonna have to get out before the snow flies.
Joe And supposin I don't?
Ryker You and the other squatters...
Joe Homesteaders, you mean, don't you?
Ryker I could blast you out of here right now, you and the others.
Joe Now you listen to me, the time for gun-blastin a man off of his own place is past. Why, they're building a penitentiary right now...
Marion Joe, that's enough.
[interrupting]
Morgan Who are you, stranger?
[to Shane]
Shane I'm a friend of Starrett's.
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Confrontation Approaches in the Quiet Moment
Joey Somebody's comin', Pa!
Joe Starrett Sr. Well, let him come.
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Shane
A Difficult Decision about the Future
Marion Isn't there anything I can say that'll change things?
Joe Can't you see, honey, maybe this is the chance. Morgan and them boys went home.
Marion You don't really believe that. That's not the reason.
Joe It's just too much for me to give up, this place and the valley. All the things that will be.
Marion Will be. Joey, don't point that thing! Go play outside! Play outside, Joey! Please dear, go outside and play. It's just pride, that's all, a silly kind of pride. Don't I mean anything to you, Joe? Doesn't Joey?
[about his toy gun; Joey exits]
Joe Marion - honey, it's because you mean so much to me that I- I've got to go. Do you think I could go on living with you and you thinking that I showed yella. Then, what about Joey? How do you think I'd ever explain that to him.
Marion Oh Joe, Joe.
Joe I've been thinkin a lot and I know I'm kinda slow sometimes, Marion, but I see things. And I know that, if, if anything happened to me that you'd be took care of, took care of better than I could do it myself. I never thought I'd live to hear myself say that but I guess now's a pretty good time to lay things bare.
Marion It's as though I'd be glad for you to go.
Joe Honey, you're the most honest and the finest girl that ever lived and I couldn't do what I gotta do if I hadn't always knowed that I could trust ya. Now don't you go countin me out. I wouldn't have lived as long as I have already if I wasn't pretty tough.
[He straps on his holster]
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Confrontation Between Shane and Ryker
Shane I came to get your offer, Ryker.
Ryker I'm not dealing with you. Where's Starrett?
Shane You're dealing with me, Ryker.
Ryker I got no quarrel with you, Shane. You walk out now and no hard feelings.
Shane What's your offer, Ryker?
Ryker To you, not a thing.
Shane That's too bad.
Ryker Too bad?
Shane Yeah, you've lived too long. Your kind of days are over.
Ryker My days! What about yours, gunfighter?
Shane The difference is I know it.
Ryker All right. So we'll all turn in our six-guns to the bartender. We'll all start hoeing spuds. Is that it?
Shane Not quite yet. We haven't heard from your friend here.
[to Wilson]
Wilson I wouldn't push too far if I were you. Our fight ain't with you.
Shane It ain't with me, Wilson?
Wilson No it ain't, Shane.
Ryker I wouldn't pull on Wilson, Shane. Will, you're a witness to this.
[to Will Atkey]
Shane So you're Jack Wilson.
Wilson What's that mean to you, Shane?
Shane I've heard about you.
Wilson And what've you heard, Shane?
Shane I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar.
Wilson Prove it.
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Shane
Struggles Over Land and Relationships
Marion You're both out of your senses. This isn't worth a life, anybody's life. What are you fighting for? This shack, this little piece of ground, and nothing but work, work, work? I'm sick of it. I'm sick of trouble. Joe, let's move. Let's go on. Please!
Joe Marion, don't say that. That ain't the truth. You love this place more than me.
Marion Not anymore.
Joe Even if that was the truth, it wouldn't change things.
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A Child's Affection for Shane
Joey Mother, I just love Shane.
Marion Do you?
Joey I love him almost as much as I love Pa. That's all right, isn't it?
Marion He's a fine man.
Joey He's so good. Don't you like him, Mother?
Marion Yes, I like him too, Joey.
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Shane
Unexpected Visitors at the Starrett Homestead
Morgan Alright. Alright. I'll open the gate for ya.
[greeting Starrett's wagon]
Joe Who goes there?
Morgan Brother Rufe's come to pay you a little visit.
Ryker Howdy, Starrett. Evening, Ma'am. I had something I wanted to talk over with you Starrett.
Joe Whatever business you and I got we can say it right here.
Ryker I'll just lay it on the barrel-head then. How'd you like to work for me?
Joe I work for myself. I've done enough working for others.
Ryker Wait till I tell ya. I'll pay ya top wages, more than you can make on this patch of ground.
Joe Nope. I'm not interested.
Ryker I haven't said it all. You can run your cattle with mine. What's more I'll buy your homestead. Set a price you think is reasonable, you'll find me reasonable. Is that fair?
Joe You've made things pretty hard for us, Ryker, and us in the right all the time.
Ryker Right? You in the right! Look, Starrett. When I come to this country, you weren't much older than your boy there. We had rough times, me and other men that are mostly dead now. I got a bad shoulder yet from a Cheyenne arrowhead. We made this country. Found it and we made it. We worked with blood and empty bellies. The cattle we brought in were hazed off by Indians and rustlers. They don't bother you much anymore because we handled em. We made a safe range out of this. Some of us died doin it but we made it. And then people move in who've never had to rawhide it through the old days. They fence off my range, and fence me off from water. Some of em like you plow ditches, take out irrigation water. And so the creek runs dry sometimes and I've got to move my stock because of it. And you say we have no right to the range. The men that did the work and ran the risks have no rights? I take you for a fair man, Starrett.
Joe I'm not belittlin what you and the others did. At the same time, you didn't find this country. There was trappers here and Indian traders long before you showed up and they tamed this country more than you did.
Ryker They weren't ranchers.
Joe You talk about rights. You think you've got the right to say that nobody else has got any. Well, that ain't the way the government looks at it.
Ryker I didn't come to argue. I made you a fair proposition.
Joe What about the others?
Ryker Shane already knows he can work for me anytime.
Joe The other homesteaders.
Ryker Look, be reasonable! After all, there's only so many hands in a deck of cards.
Joe Then I've got to say no.
Ryker You don't give a man much choice do you, Starrett? How do you feel about it, son? Wouldn't you like to go partners with me? I don't want trouble with your father. We don't want anyone to get hurt, do we?
[to Joey]
Joe Joey ain't quite of age, Ryker.
Ryker What d'you say, son?.
Marion Come up here, Joey.
Ryker I don't want you to be sorry, Starrett. I'll see ya. .
[he leaves]
Joe What do you make of him?
[to Shane, watching the retreating Wilson]
Shane He's no cowpuncher.
Joe: No. He don't look the part sure enough.
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A Father's Promise to Teach Shooting Skills
Joey Pa, do you think Shane will teach me to shoot?
Joe I'll teach you myself, once I get the time, Joey.
Joey Can you shoot as good as Shane, Pa?
Joe How do I know? I've never seen him shoot. But I doubt it.
Joey He didn't wear his gun today. Why is that, Pa?
Joe Well, he's tradin at the store, not holdin it up.
Joey But why, Pa, honest? Why didn't he?
Joe I don't wear one myself.
Joey It goes with him, though...Could you whip him, Pa? Could you whip Shane?
Joe Don't you ask nothin but questions?
Joey But could you?
Joe Ooh, maybe. But there’s no call for that, Joey. Shane’s on our side.
Marion Somebody’s coming, Joe.
Joe I know. It’s Ernie Wright.
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Tension Among Characters in a Confrontation
Morgan Well lookey here........lookey here....
[Wilson, curious, joins him at the saloon door followed by Ryker]
Wilson Why don't we just gun him and get on with it? One of them's run already. It won't take much to stampede the rest.
Ryker Remember, Wilson, this has gotta look right to Grafton.
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Confrontation Among Characters in Shane
Wilson Hey! Come here!
Shipstead I wouldn't go over there if I were you.
Torrey Nobody's gonna buffalo me. What can I do for you?
[to Wilson]
Wilson And where d'you think your goin'?
Torrey To get a whisky.
Shipstead Torrey! Torrey!
Wilson They tell me they call you Stonewall.
Torrey There anything wrong with that?
Wilson It's just funny. I guess they named a lot of that Southern trash after old Stonewall.
Torrey Who'd they name you after, or would you know?
Wilson I'm saying that Stonewall Jackson was trash himself. Him and Lee and all the rest of them rebs. You too.
Torrey Your nothing but a low-down lyin Yankee!
Wilson Prove it.
[Wilson shoots Torrey]
Morgan One less sodbuster.
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