Broken Arrow
by Delmer Daves
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Actor: Basil Ruysdael, Debra Paget, James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Will GeerDirector: Delmer Daves
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer
Editor: J. Watson Webb Jr.
Producer: Julian Blaustein
Writer: Albert Maltz
Writer: Elliott Arnold
Writer: Michael Blankfort
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Unknown; French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Broken Arrow
Movie Review: Sympathethic View
Summary: 4 Stars
Broken Arrow is excellent, though imperfect by today's PC standards with the blue-eyed Jeff Chandler cast as Cochise. Still, the story is compelling and well-told with a great cast headed by the always great, James Stewart. I write this approximately 3 miles from Tom Jeffords gravesite in Tucson. I have to take issue with the part of Richard Jameson's Amazon review where he states: "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). No kidding! Off the top of my head, here are several films sympathetic to Native Americans that pre-date DEVIL'S DOORWAY. As mentioned in another customer review John Ford's FORT APACHE (1948), Cochise is portrayed as an honorable leader, concerned for his people and forced to flee the reservation due to the corrupt management of the Indian agent and forced to fight due to a cavalry commander's (Henry Fonda) arrogance and ignorance. A corrupt Indian agent is again the villain in Ford's SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949). Also, Ford cast Native Americans in both these films as well as many other of his works. Corrupt business interests are clearly the "bad guys" in 1946's BUFFALO BILL and in 1942's THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON. Granted, while painting George Armstrong Custer as sympathetic to the plight of the plains indians is strictly a plot convenience, the plots also make it clear in both films that the Cheyenne and the Sioux are forced into war by broken promises and lies. Chiefs Yellow Hand and Crazy Horse are both portrayed as men of honor, and coincidentally both portrayed by Anthony Quinn. To his credit, Mister Jameson is aware that the first films to portray the Native American situation in the 1800s in a sympathetic light were not LITTLE BIG MAN or DANCES WITH WOLVES. Other than that, I have no opinion on this matter.
Summary of Broken Arrow
In 1870, when white men and Indians are fighting bitterly, Tom Jeffords (Stewart) strongly believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler) and arranging a truce, he is called upon by a U.S. Army general to negotiate a government peace treaty. Though he fulfills his mission, Jeffords soon experiences great tragedy when he, his Indian wife (Debra Paget) and good friend Cochise become targets of a renegade ambush.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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