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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $7.49 You Save: $7.49 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : August, 1950 DVD Release : 22 May, 2007 |
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Broken Arrow description Delmer Daves's movie about ex–army scout Tom Jeffords's one-man peace mission to the Apaches, and the diplomatic partnership he formed with Cochise, has a child's-storybook clarity to it. That applies to not only its lovely Technicolor compositions but also its scenario, characterizations, and still-arresting mix of violence and delicacy. Broken Arrow wasn't the first Western to express sympathy for the Indian side in the frontier wars (Devil's Doorway came out earlier in 1950 and filed a more scathing brief on the Indians' behalf), but it was Daves's picture that had a decisive impact on popular consciousness and effectively amended the ground rules of the genre. James Stewart's Jeffords may be less compelling than the troubled Westerners the star would soon be playing for Anthony Mann, but there's real tenderness and vulnerability in the performance. Jeff Chandler scored a supporting-actor Oscar® nomination for leavening the dignity of Cochise with sly humor. --Richard T. Jameson |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Influential Western |
| Along with the lesser known "Devil's Doorway" ,also made in 1950,this movie started a trend in Hollywood Westerns of either treating Native Americans as the heroes or else dealing with Native American concerns in a sympathetic way .It was groundbreaking in its time and while much of its initial impact has diminished thanks to other movies taking up this theme due honour should be paid to the makers of Broken Arrow for their pioneering role .
James Stewart plays Will Jeffords a Cavalry scout who lives with the Apache after having been sent to negotiate a truce between them and the US Army.He falls in love with Sonseeahay (Debra Paget)and the two marry.He also becomes fast friends with Cochise (Jeff Chandler)and they become blood brothers In later movies the blame for Native American uprisings was laid at the door of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington and corrupt business interests .Here it is the activities of crooked traders and renegades Apaches under Geronimo (Jay Silverheels) that gives rise to violence and warfare and an outcome which contains its share of tragedy. The movie is touching and exciting by turns and is ravishingly shot in Technicolor .Performances are excellent with a particularly sincere turn by Stewart.So impactful was Chandler's performance that it shot him to stardom and he went on to play Cochise in two other movies . Viewed from today its looks and sounds a lot less daring than it was back then and the casting of white actors in the role of Apaches is slightly dicomforting but this is still a fine movie and marked the beginning of Delmer Daves' career as a maker of Westerns and he made some beauties -eg The Last Wagon Its a worthwhile and moving piece of cinema and I thoroughly recommend it |
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