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"Shane contains something more than the beauty and the grandeur of the mountains and plains, drenched by the brilliant Western sunshine and the violent, torrential, black-browed rains. It contains a tremendous comprehension of the bitterness and passion of the feuds that existed between the new homesteaders and the cattlemen on the open range. It contains a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code. And it also contains a very wonderful understanding of the spirit of a little boy amid all the tensions and excitements and adventures of a frontier home."
"There's A Score To Settle...and This is it!"
"There never was a man like SHANE. There never was a motion picture like SHANE."
"The Greatest Story Of the West Ever Filmed"
"Alan Ladd - Shane"
"Jean Arthur - Marian Starrett"
"Van Heflin - Joe Starrett"
"Brandon deWilde - Joey Starrett"
"Jack Palance - Jack Wilson"
"Ben Johnson - Chris Calloway"
"Edgar Buchanan - Fred Lewis"
"Emile Meyer - Rufus Ryker"
"Elisha Cook, Jr. - Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey"
"Douglas Spencer - Axel 'Swede' Shipstead"
"John Dierkes - Morgan Ryker"
"Ellen Corby - Mrs. Liz Torrey"
"Paul McVey - Sam Grafton"
"John Miller - Will Atkey, bartender"
"Edith Evanson - Mrs. Shipstead"
"Leonard Strong - Ernie Wright"
"Martin Mason - Ed Howells"
"Nancy Kulp - Mrs. Howells"
"Janice Carroll - Susan Lewis"
"Helen Brown - Martha Lewis"
"Ray Spiker - Johnson"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.