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 blue, mountainous horizon. This trailer describes Shane as “a mysterious stranger [who] rode in out of nowhere.” A bit of a wanderer? I’m pretty sure my dad sent me this video because he’d like me to come home for a visit. He always said Shane was his favorite movie, especially because of that call at the end.
