Great films that deserve great remakes...

[Little_Nemo]

Not a remake by a good stretch, but if Pale Rider draws on Shane as a reference for some character and plot ingredients and does its own thing with them, I could tolerate a “remake” by those standards for great oldies like:

Night of the Hunter
On the Waterfront
Jim Thorpe All American

In each case, and in others like these, the power of the acting could not be bettered, but the datedness of the production might stand some modernizing.

It would be tough.

That way I look at it is that a good remake doesn’t diminish the original. You just end up with two good movies instead of one. You get Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars. High Noon and Outland. Infernal Affairs and The Departed.