Spitball Army

In the opening credits to Shane, Jack Palance is billed as Walter Jack Palance.

When Shane changes from his light blue long-sleeved shirt to his buckskin frontiersman duds, you know he means business.

Shane subplots: homesteaders vs. cattle baron gangs; young boy’s hero worship; gunfighter struggling to suppress his past; love triangle.

I tell Mother I’ve watched Shane again. “Shane, come back!” she cries. I hear her in my ear, miles away, further than the Tetons.