Shane(Blu-Ray)

Beschrijving
Shane, geregisseerd door de veelgeprezen George Stevens, is het legendarische verslag van een typische Westernmythe. Bekroond met maar liefst zes Oscars is Shane de geschiedenis ingegaan als een ware Amerikaanse bioscoopklassieker. Zwerver en voormalig pistoolheld Shane (Alan Ladd) schiet een boerenfamilie te hulp die wordt geterroriseerd door een rijke veehouder (Jack Palance) en zijn ingehuurde manschappen. Tijdens een laatste, beslissend gevecht ziet Shane de dood in de ogen. De personages in deze mysterieuze, onvoorspelbare film worden neergezet door een fantastische cast.

One of the landmark and most enduring Westerns of the 1950s, George Stevens' Shane struck a chord with audiences at the time of its release, and continues to influence admirers today, even as it served as a template for the series of groundbreaking spaghetti-westerns of Sergio Leone.

Alan Ladd plays the titular gunslinger, the archetypal ''man alone'' who wanders into town and shortly afterward becomes embroiled in a conflict between a group of Wyoming homesteaders and the nefarious cattle baron who has designs to wrest away their land. As the conflict escalates, and a romance develops between Shane and homesteader Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur in her last screen role before an early retirement from motion pictures), a who's-who of studio system character talent revolves through the production - Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Elisha Cook, Jr. before the proverbial ride into the sunset...

Writing in The New York Times in 2001, Woody Allen said: ''Shane, I think, is [Stevens'] masterpiece. I've seen it many, many times. Certainly more than 20.'' The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present George Stevens Shane in this standard single disc edition on Blu-ray in the UK.

There never was a man like SHANE! There never was a motion picture like SHANE!

Regisseur: George Stevens

Cast: Brandon De Wilde, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Edgar Buchanan, Ben Johnson, Jack Palance, Alan Ladd

Ondertiteling: Engels