Posts tagged: Alan Ladd

My dad sent me this video in an email this morning. It’s a trailer for the 1953 western movie “Shane” starring Alan Ladd, which is what I was named after. Whenever I meet men of a certain age (my dad’s age, that is), I’m sometimes greeted with “Come back, Shane! Shane! Come back!,” which is the little boy’s refrain at the end of the movie as Shane rides off on his horse along the prairie, his figure receding into the […]

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