Shane

A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.

The Hanged Man features serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful and rough style.

Jean Arthur was 50 years old when she played Marian Starrett - she was, in fact, ten years older than Emile Meyer, who played grizzled old cattle baron Rufus Ryker. Arthur wore heavy make up and an extremely inappropriate 1952 styled short cut, wavy blonde wig, which sadly emphasized the advancing age of the woman wearing it. Soft focus closeups only made the situation worse, drawing audience's further attention to the problem.