As one of the most name-checked Westerns, you’d expect 1953’s Shane would feel more relevant to us in 2015. Sadly, there’s little of the formal progressiveness of Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, or the existential overtones of Ford’s The Searchers – Westerns that really made their mark as classics of the genre and helped move it forward in groundbreaking new ways – but while it may may outwardly lack such aspects, Shane boasts plenty of tension-heavy set pieces and an immovable sense…
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