Alan Ladd played the title role in Shane, a gunfighter who arrives from nowhere and leaves the same way, and the boy calling after him is one of the most reproduced endings in American film. He was short enough that studios built ramps and trenches to manage his eyelines, which became a persistent industry joke he found humiliating.
Alan LaddGeorge Stevens's foundational classical Western. Alan Ladd as the title gunfighter.
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