SHANE (Masters of Cinema) STANDARD EDITION (BLU-RAY)

Acclaimed the greatest story of the west ever filmed!

There's a score to settle... and this is it!

SYNOPSIS:

One of the landmark and most enduring Westerns of the 1950s, George Stevens' Shane struck a chord with audiences at the time of its release, and continues to influence admirers today, even as it served as a template for the series of groundbreaking spaghetti-westerns of Sergio Leone.

Alan Ladd plays the titular gunslinger, the archetypal ''man alone'' who wanders into town and shortly afterward becomes embroiled in a conflict between a group of Wyoming homesteaders and the nefarious cattle baron who has designs to wrest away their land. As the conflict escalates, and a romance develops between Shane and homesteader Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur in her last screen role before an early retirement from motion pictures), a who's-who of studio system character talent revolves through the production - Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Elisha Cook, Jr. before the proverbial ride into the sunset...

Writing in The New York Times in 2001, Woody Allen said: ''Shane, I think, is [Stevens'] masterpiece. I've seen it many, many times. Certainly more than 20.'' The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present George Stevens Shane in this standard single disc edition on Blu-ray in the UK.

There never was a man like SHANE! There never was a motion picture like SHANE!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Stunning high-definition restoration 1.37:1 presentation
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Uncompressed mono and stereo soundtracks
• Audio commentary by George Stevens, Jr. and associate producer Ivan Moffat
• Video interview with film scholar Neil Sinyard
• Complete Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Shane
• Original theatrical trailer

Review

''The finest stories are often the most simple and George Stevens' classic western is simplicity itself'' --RTE Guide

''Arguably the most seminal Western ever made'' ★★★★★ --Empire

''Shane isn't just one of the best movies of its genre or decade - it's one of the finest films ever made.'' --Film 4