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I love this film because of a couple of things, obviously the location shots of San Francisco 1958 is beautiful. The main thing that makes me love this film is the characters. Eli Wallach as Dancer and Robert Keith as Julian is terrific. It's a Mentor-Protégé Dynamic: Julian acts as Dancer's mentor, guiding and restraining his impulsive tendencies. He views Dancer as a "pure pathological study"-a psychopath with raw potential that Julian believes he can refine into the "best" in their line of work. This is evident in scenes where Julian soothes Dancer's rage, prevents unnecessary killings , and even collects the last words of Dancer's victims in a notebook as a quirky, intellectual hobby. Their banter underscores this: Julian lectures on grammar and philosophy to "civilize" Let's not forget Richard Jaeckel as their new driver/chauffeur. His character is humorous.

If you enjoy interesting characters and dialogue that is worth watching over and over you'll love this film.

Rex Harrison is fantastic. Captain Gregg is probably the greatest character on film in my opinion. Harrison really did an amazing job with this character. He's hilarious, emotional and wise. I put captain Daniel Gregg up there with Cary Grant's Walter Burns in His Girl Friday. Every scene he's in makes you glued to the screen in fear of missing a word. As far as Gene Tierney goes, I'm a huge fan. She's got a calm to her that's beautiful. I'm not a big fan of reviewing plots. It never made sense to me. This plot especially, will sound ridiculous to today's audience. It's hard enough to get someone under age 50 to appreciate a black and white film. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a gem. It's a film filled with humor and emotion but to me, my favorite thing about is the dialogue is filled with wisdom. A lot of wisdom in this dialogue.

I usually try and guess how many stars a film will average on IMDB. Certain movies I know will be well over 8 stars. I was surprised to see this great movie only at 7.6. That's a good rating but not good enough for Shane. It should average over 9. Too many people nowadays don't have patience to appreciate dialogue, scenery or camera shots. It's probably the reason Hollywood hasn't released a great film in decades. Shane is done beautifully in every department of filmmaking. George Steven's intentionally tried to show the viewer how brutal a single bullet could be. He didn't allow people to be shot multiple times while still firing back. A bullet at close range will knock you off your feet and kill you dead in your tracks.

I'm happy to see many reviews on here are from the last five years. Maybe some youngsters do actually appreciate good filmmaking.

Anyway this a beautiful movie. My mom passed away two years ago at 92 years old. She was an immigrant that grow up on a small farm in Greece and came to America to live. She adored this movie....it blows my mind that most people born and raised in this country can't sit through this movie. We need to start showing films like this in the theaters regularly. We have these giant movie complexes with 20 theaters. They need to have a theater put aside to show films like this at all times. They need to be required in school. We're losing our culture. I wanna know how little kids that grew up in the 1960s 70s 80s and even early 90s could watch these movies on tv and appreciate it...yet in the last 30 years a little kid wouldn't be able to sit through ten minutes of it. It's sad. Pathetic. We need to make movies like Shane, come back.