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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.

This film had the potential to be a great movie rather than just a good entertaining movie. It absolutely has the cast needed to become a special film. It's a good plot with some good dialogue. It's interesting to see the early days of an agenda being pushed about how we go about punishing criminals... do we focus more on psychiatry and getting the criminal help or do we continue to put him in prison and keep them locked away. This movie is 1948, the original was I believe ten years earlier. We still have the same debates today in 2025. But we are fortunate enough to have almost a hundred years worth of evidence that shows us that soft on crime policies have not made us safer. I'm not disputing that a young kid that committed a crime like unarmed robberies might not be better off getting help rather than prison time. I believe prisons would a good rehabilitation if we didn't allow our prisons to the most dangerous place in the world. It would make sense if prisons were run like a safe military boot camp. Our prisons should not be a dangerous place. A criminal in jail shouldn't have to be afraid of other prisoners. He should be locked up in prison as a punishment, while there he should have a work routine. Exercise and fed with recreational time as rewards for good behavior. We let gangs run the place. When someone gets sent to jail, they're more afraid of being killed or beat up by other prisoners more than they are of just the fact that they've lost their freedom for a certain amount of time. It's ridiculous. Anyway it's a good film.