From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, April 25, 2003 at 8:52:28 PM UTC-7, Endy9 wrote:   
   > I finally caught this last night on AMC. Great movie. I give it **** out   
   > of five stars.   
   > Alan Ladd and Van Heflin were fantastic. Ben Johnson, Emile Meyer, Elisha   
   > Cook, Brandon De Wilde and Jean Arthur were also strong. Really good cast.   
   > I loved the sutblety at the beginning. Not a lot of narration type talk to   
   > explain. The viewer is left to figure things out. I also liked the   
   > "darkness". Like the scene where Shane helps with the stump like he and Joe   
   > are exorcising a demon together. The scene and score just seemed ominus to   
   > me.   
   > I wasn't that impressed with Jack Palance's character. I expected more. He   
   > just didn't seem very sinister to me.   
   > Also liked how the writer attempted to make the audience feel sympathy for   
   > Ryker after first setting him us as the "bad" guy.   
   > The moral dilemnas were very effective. If there is no law around and I   
   > have someone threathening me who I cannot beat in a fair gunfight, do I have   
   > the right to take them out first some other way. I know this wasn't   
   > presented in the film, but the Jack Wilson character made me think of "what   
   > would I do" in the same situation. I like films that encourage one to   
   > examine themself deeply.   
   > How come it seems like in older films, 50s and earlier little kids in movies   
   > were less annoying. Seems like in modern films kids get on your nerves very   
   > quickly where you want some bad guy to wipe them out just to shut them up?   
   >  I just never was annoyed by this kid, the one in the Gregory Peck,   
   > Yearling movie, or even Shirley Temple. But the kid in Indiana Jones and   
   > the Temple of Doom, Problem Child, Dutch, etc. make me want to strangle them   
   > myself.   
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