Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: one of Martin Scorsese's favorites.
Every week, western fans can (re)discover classics of the genre on television. Today we're talking about one of George Stevens' best films.
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Released in cinemas in 1953, four years before the essential Giant, the film The Man of the Lost Valleys follows the journey of Shane, a former bounty hunter, who arrives in a village where he is welcomed by the three members of a family of peasants, the Staretts.
They fall under the spell of this traveling cowboy who comes to the aid of farmers confronted by ranchers who want to rob them.
In the cast of this essential 1950s western, we find Alan Ladd (Citizen Kane) in the role of our vigilante hero, as well as Van Heflin, Jean Arthur and Brandon De Wilde in the roles of the Starett siblings.
Martin Scorsese adopted it
Rated 3.8 out of 5 by AlloCiné spectators, The Man of the Lost Valleys is undoubtedly one of Georges Stevens' best films, after A Place in the Sun (4.2 out of 5) and Giant (4 out of 5).
And it's not just movie buffs who are crazy about this film, Martin Scorsese too! Indeed, the director of Taxi Driver shared the long list of his masterpieces, and this is one of them, like 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, Once Upon a Time in West by Sergio Leone, or Cold Sweat by Alfred Hitchcock.
Moreover, Martin Scorsese is a great lover of the work of George Stevens, since he declared that Giant was a film “very special for him”. When he saw it for the very first time, he was thirteen years old, and it had a profound impact on him.
In total, The Man of the Lost Valleys received two BAFTA Award nominations, as well as six Oscar nominations, where it won Best Cinematography. A great reward for this film which earned twenty million dollars in profits, for a budget of three million dollars…
Tonight on Arte at 8:55 p.m.
