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Shane (1953)
Director: George Stevens.Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance. Tony Montana. Don Corleone. Shane? That’s right, the titular character in director George Stevens’ classic western Shane ranks amongst cinema’s all-time great G’s. It’s all in the way Shane, played by Alan Ladd, lives by the unofficial cowboy code.Drifting into a quaint Wyoming town, he befriends a mother and son, constantly treating the former with old-school chivalry and giving the latter tons of guidance. And when he’s shot in a gunfight while protecting the family, Shane does the honorable thing: He rides off into the sunset so that he can die on his own, not in the front of the woman and young boy who now love him. Noble but gangster.