- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 0792163710
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #13,363 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
aspect ratio confusion,
By V.M. Flesher (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: NEW Shane (DVD) (DVD)
SHANE is a great film, but this DVD doesn't quite present it correctly. Paramount released SHANE in 1953. Its intended projection aspect ratio was 1.66:1 (coincidentally the European widescreen cinema aspect ratio; and, very close to our current video favorite, 16:9). Check out this article: http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/evolution.htmI haven't watched this DVD carefully enough (I don't enjoy the crop-job, and prefer my memory of seeing it in the theatre) to determine if it was panned/scanned or centered to eliminate edge material, but it definitely does not present the film in the aspect ratio intended for cinema projection in 1953. This is a greater shame, because SHANE was at the vanguard pushing cinema screens to the wider ratios we enjoy today.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL:THE ONLY ADULT WESTERN--SHANE!!!,
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This review is from: Shane 45th (VHS Tape)
"Shane! You hit him with your gun! I hate you, Shane!"--Brandon DeWilde as Joey Starrett to Alan Ladd in SHANE. SHANE is a beautiful movie. The photography is beautiful. The music is beautiful. The stars--Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, Brandon DeWilde, and Jack Palance are terrific and the character actors--like Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan--later a star of tv's PETTICOAT JUNCTION--and Elisha Cook, Jr.--briefly much later in his life in THE NIGHT STALKER--are fantastic. The sets and the script make you feel like you're living in the Wild West of the 1800s. But even though a lot of reviewers say SHANE is a battle between good and evil, it's just the opposite:Director George Stevens shows people in situations where you can't clearly define what's right or wrong:SHANE's villains were settlers, the good guys are settlers. Jean Arthur is a frontier woman happily married to Van Heflin as Joe Starrett, yet suddenly she falls in love with Shane. As the movie approaches its POINT OF NO RETURN, Shane ends a fistfight with Joe Starrett by hitting Starrett on the head with his gun--with Brandon DeWilde as Starret's son Joey watching--leading to the finale where Jack Palance as Jack Wilson is a gunfighter, and Shane is a gunfighter. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL:THE ONLY ADULT WESTERN EVER MADE--SHANE!!! Chari Krishnan RESEARCHKING
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a Difference a Director Makes!,
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This review is from: NEW Shane (DVD) (DVD)
Please regard this as a postscript to the many fine reviews of this mastepiece.Alan Ladd was one of those great actors who might have been. Ladd's deadpan persona, which some have criticized as wooden, was the essential element in the suppressed emotion which would serve him so well in his greatest role, that of Shane. In following Ladd's filmography, it's fascinating to see how the quality of his work is related to the complexity of the character he plays. The more complex, it seems, the better Ladd's performance. And of course, the enigma of Shane, the character's inherent complexity, lends itself perfectly to Ladd's talents. Sue Carol, Alan Ladd's wife and agent, didn't care for directors, preferring the actor-as-producer rather than director. While this "business approach" contributed to great wealth and influence for the Ladd dynasty, it did not lend itself to the artistic achievements of which Ladd was capable. Whether this was of concern to Alan can only be conjectured. However, one thing is certain, when Ladd was given a strong director, such as Raoul Walsh, Michael Curtiz, Edward Dmytryk or George Stevens for Shane, the results were dramatic. What may have been his finest performance was also his last, in Dmytryk's The Carpetbaqggers. As the enigmatic Nevada Smith, was Alan Ladd replaying Shane?
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