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Directed by | George Stevens |
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Based on | Shane by Jack Schaefer |
Produced by | George Stevens |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Loyal Griggs |
Edited by |
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Music by | Victor Young |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 118 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.5 million[2] |
Box office | $9 million (U.S. and Canada rentals) [3] |
Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin. Released by Paramount Pictures,[4][5] the film is noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre.[6] The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie Jr.,[7] based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer.[8] Its Oscar-winning cinematography was by Loyal Griggs.
Shane was the last feature film and the only color film of Arthur's career.[9] It also features Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer, Elisha Cook Jr., Edgar Buchanan, and Ben Johnson.[6][7] It was listed as number 45 in the 2007 edition of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list, and number three on AFI's 10 Top 10 in the Western category.
In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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