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SUMMARY:CIFF Educational Classic Film: "Shane"
DESCRIPTION:The Coronado Island Film Festival’s 2026 Educational Classic Film Program presents the 1953 Classic Western “Shane” directed by George Stevens. \nThe screening is FREE and open to the public of all ages. \n \nShane: Hollywood’s Most Iconic Western?  \nFive short years before the release of Shane\, Director George Stevens returned from a harrowing tour on active-duty during WWII in the Army’s European Film Unit\, for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Stevens filmed both the D-Day Invasion and the liberation of the Nazi Death Camp at Dachau\, experiences that profoundly changed him\, for the man with the camera cannot avert his eyes. George Stevens understood death’s horrible finality as few other filmmakers ever have. \nStevens’ young son\, George Jr.\, after reading Jack Schaefer’s huge 1949 bestselling novel\, Shane\, urged his father to bring the story to the big screen. In Stevens’ capable hands as both producer and director\, A. B. Guthrie Jr.’s Oscar nominated screenplay adaptation of Shane yielded one of Hollywood’s most enduring Western classics. Set in the post-civil war homesteading era\, Stevens’ movie never glorifies violence; it is shown sparingly and realistically. Set against the majestic Wyoming mountains\, and based on an actual range war\, Shane is a complex\, multi-layered story of men reluctantly called to defend their homes\, wives\, children\, and community by standing up to other men who have no qualms about violently imposing their will on homesteaders who are “inconvenient” to their way of life on what was once a vast Western open range. \nStevens’ masterpiece features an all-star cast\, including two Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees\, 10-year-old Brandon DeWilde\, then the youngest nominee ever for a competitive Oscar\, and Jack Palance\, in his first movie role\, as Shane’s darkly menacing adversary. Loyal Griggs breathtakingly captures the splendor of the homesteader’s valley set against the majesty of the Grand Tetons\, work for which Griggs won a Best Cinematography Oscar. \nAt the movie’s core is the unforgettable performance of one of Hollywood’s most unlikely stars\, the diminutive Alan Ladd as Shane\, the tale’s enigmatic Knight Errant. Few cinematic moments are more iconic than Shane riding toward the horizon\, as a young boy’s call to the man he and his family will never forget\, to “come back\,” echo off the Wyoming mountains. \nShane is the fourth screening in the 2026 Educational Classic Film Program “The Art of Adaptation\,” which continues to run through the end of May. \nDon’t miss this chance to screen this milestone film in the chronicle of American cinema and participate in post-screening discussion of Shane’s significance cinematically\, historically and culturally. The screener with “The Best Take” during discussion will receive a handsome hard-copy of the Jack Schaefer novel compliments of CIFF. The remaining 2026 “The Art of Adaptation” screening schedule is\, in April: The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Double Indemnity (1944); and in May: A Tale of Two Cities (1937)\, and Les Misérables (1935).
URL:https://coronadotimes.com/event/ciff-educational-classic-film-shane/
LOCATION:Winn Room\, Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Ave\, Coronado\, CA\, 92118\, United States
CATEGORIES:entertainment,film,history
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