Shane [1953] (Blu-ray)

Shane [1953] (Blu-ray)
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…