Shane

I just watched the Bluray. Wonderful job with this release and thankfully at the correct aspect ratio as was shot/composed.

 

Yes, lots of controversy before this blu-ray was issued. But the final result is spectacular.

 

What are the extra's?

 

my recollection of this was in B&W, but it's beautiful color!

 

Only George Stevens Jr. Commentary and the trailer. Stevens Jr. was a production assistant on the film while his father directed and he evidently supervised the blu-ray. The original technicolor strips were scanned in 4k for the renovation.

 

One of the things I like to do when I'm watching an older film is to see who is still alive that was in it. I think all the actors from shane are gone.

 

Never realized Woody Allen was such a fan of the movie...

Nice write up by Woody...

 

Didn't realize that Jean Arthur was 10 years older then Van Heflin and 13 years older then Ladd.

 

It's just starting! Hurry, don't miss it,..............again.

 

My old man's favorite film.........he came from Hazelton, Jack P's hometown.

 

Shane is one of those classic films that I've actually never gotten around to watching... maybe I'll order the DVD, it's dirt cheap.

 

Get the Bluray, it looks AMAZING.

 

The roots of Ladd’s depression can almost certainly be traced back to his childhood, which was anything but stable — his father died before his eyes when he was only four years old. When his mother remarried, the family began a Joad-like trek west and eventually settled in California. Their itinerant days cost Ladd a few years in school — and consequently he was not only the smallest, but also the oldest boy in his year. Nor did it help that he made poor grades, was excruciatingly shy, and had no stable male role model. If suicide is hereditary, then he never had a chance. In 1937, wrecked on alcohol and poverty, his mother swallowed ant poison and died before his eyes, just as he was struggling to get his first break. The incident naturally devastated him, and many insiders have speculated that he spent the rest of his life seeking to replace the doting woman who had been his only source of reassurance and approval. Sue Carol, ten years his senior, filled some of the void left in his mother’s wake, and Ladd came to consider the Paramount a surrogate home. Nonetheless, he was plagued with guilt about his mother for the rest of his days, and when he left the comfortable surroundings of Paramount his peace of mind and sense of stability deteriorated even further.

 

Get the Masters of Cinema 2-disc blu-ray (if you can find a copy). It has the original 1.37:1 aspect ratio on disc one and the theatrical 1.66:1 on disc two.

It also has a different version of the 1.66:1 'crop' on disc two as well, which was done specifically for this release.

Everyone has their own preference (mine is the 1.37:1) but it's nice to have choices.

 

Liked the movie and the slow pace - that's how it was.

 

Regarding Shane, it always sounded as if this film used the sound effect of cannons for hand guns -and I've always enjoyed it immensely.

 

Looks like Shane came back.

 

Not in the least important, but during the first appearance of Shane-- seen as tiny image riding towards the ranch-- a bright point of light moves horizontally left to right in the background. Speculation is that sunlight is reflecting off a vehicle on a highway in the far distance. Either that or a UFO.