Jared Art In itself, the movie is a good one. However it almost completely detracts from the original book, which is probably the greatest Western ever written. Sorry to say, but the movie is basically a dumbed down version for the masses, which rips the book apart and re-arranges and deletes many parts. Still a good movie to watch, but definitely not for people who fell in love with the book.

Smoreni Zmaj It is considered one of the best films of all time. And once again, I'm too stupid to figure out why... Average tra-la-la western story. It is not bad for a western, although it is not much above the average in the genre, and within the entire history of the film, I'm not giving it a crumb above the six.6/10

tomfirak-674-201999 Shane is a great movie but everyone seems to not realize that much of the plot was borrowed from the movie Whispering Smith that starred Alan Ladd and was a excellent western also.

dfwesley One of my all time favorite westerns. Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, and Jack Palance give fine performances in this classic. Jean Arthur is the wife trying to save her husband and Elisha Cook, Jr., is the heroic but outgunned homesteader. Heflin is the righteous husband who has the courage, but not the fighting skills, to confront his enemies.Palance steals the show as the vicious hired killer. His confrontation with Cook is riveting as he humiliates and then shoots him down in the street mud. Palance's every move is sinister He is so evil that even the dog slinks away from him. Jack meets his end at the hands of Shane in an epic gun battle. Shane challenges, baits him into drawing, and shoots first. His commentary on the dead man is "He was fast." Shane then blasts the rest of that evil family who is about to ambush him. The movie ends as Shane, wounded, rides off into the twilight, and little Brandon de Wilde, who has witnessed the battle, calls after him wistfully to no avail.