A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

Alan Ladd
as Shane

Jean Arthur
as Marian Starrett

Van Heflin
as Joe Starrett

Brandon De Wilde
as Joey Starrett

Jack Palance
as Jack Wilson

Ben Johnson
as Chris Calloway

Edgar Buchanan
as Fred Lewis

Emile Meyer
as Rufus Ryker

Elisha Cook Jr.
as Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey

Douglas Spencer
as Axel 'Swede' Shipstead
John Chard
A man has to be what he is Joey, can't break the mould. Shane is a weary gunslinger, one day he happens upon a homesteader family and begins to do chores for them, he finds an inner peace that he long thought was behind him. Sadly his peace is short lived because a strong arm cattle baron is dete...
Peter McGinn
I first watched this movie decades ago, probably when I was I’m my teens, and possibly when I was spending some summer vacation time with my grandparents, who seemingly were always watching western shows. I read my first Zane Grey western, Riders of the Purple Sage, in that old house. I am not a ...