Western Movie Post Stagecoach and Shane

Watching Stagecoach and John Wayne's performance that led him from a B actor to a movie star was pretty long, slow, drawn out and just a bit boring. I couldn't understand the plot, maybe because I was probably late but I enjoyed the Mexican man who was married to the Apache woman who later left him to warn others, I believe.

I understood that the Americans and Cowboys didn't get a long since they fought over land.

Then I read a summary of the movie which put everything into perspective. Now I understand why the woman, Dallas, who didn't seem to get any respect from anyone except Ringo (John Wayne), was a whore. I did notice she gained more respect after she helped the drunk doctor who had to sober up in order to even deliver this child who was delivered to a woman who was much more respected.

The Stagecoach had all types of people riding from the mentally challenged Shotgun rider to the drunk Doc who sat next to the paranoid passenger and Ringo who played an outlaw who was after Geronimo.

It was your basic Cowboy and Indians movie, John Wayne played a mysterious cowboy with a big heart, just as in Shane, a 1953 Western film, directed by George Stevens starring Alan Dadd and Jean Arthur. As a child I remember the end when the little boy Joey shouts, "Shane, Shane comeback Shane". I so loved that part, my father would watch a lot of Western movies, he enjoyed watching John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood and Charleston Heston.

Like Ringo, Shane was a gun slinging drifter who ended up on a mission to help the man he accepted a job as a farmhand from and ended up caught between the home owner's conflict w/ Rufus, who wants to force homeowners and others off the land. Shane knocked the homeowner Joe out cold to confront Rufus who was trying to take Joey's dad's land. Rufus also hired a gunslinger named Jack Wilson (Jack Palance).
Shane saves Joe's life as well as the family's land and home. The boy Joey is so fond of Shane he doesn't want him to leave, but being that he's a drifter he can't stay in one place and his job seemed done.

Both Shane and Ringo are similar Both are mysterious no one knew where they came from or what they were about exactly, in my opinion. Both were facing someone head on and wanted to defeat their enemy. There are many similarities with both movies and many differences as well.