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1950 Certificate PG
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By 1870 there has been ten years of a cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apache Indians. Tom Jeffords, an ex-soldier, saves the life of a young Apache boy and starts to reassess his opinions of the Indians. As an ambassador of goodwill, he enters Cochise's stronghold, but is peace achievable? Read more

Starring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
Director Delmer Daves
Genres Action/Adventure

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Broken Arrow

By 1870 there has been ten years of a cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apache Indians. Tom Jeffords, an ex-soldier, saves the life of a young Apache boy and starts to reassess his opinions of the Indians. As an ambassador of goodwill, he enters Cochise's stronghold, but is peace achievable?

Starring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
Director Delmer Daves
Studio OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Action/Adventure
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 21 Feb 2005
Production year: 1950
Format DVD

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  • 1 stars out of 4

    Solemn Western which at the time was acclaimed for giving the Indian's point of view (something which had scarcely happened since silent days). As entertainment it was not exciting, but it set Jeff Chandler off on a career playing Cochise with variations,

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

  • The Western that launched the be-nice-to-the-Indian cycle of the '50s now looks a little on the self-consciously... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Ahead of its Time

    I first saw this movie when I was six years old at a cinema in St Anne's on Sea in Lancs. I saw it five times! It wasn't until I rented it on DVD that I realised how advanced it was for its time. 'Til then it had been 'Indians bad, Yankees good' and this film was one of the first to state that the Native Americans may well have been getting a bad deal when their hunting grounds were invaded and despoiled by settlers who really had no legal rights to the land anyhow. I hadn't understood how much watching this film as a child had informed my later opinions about ethnic cultures and the culpability of 'conquerors'. I expected it to be corny and dated and was pleasantly surprised to find it neither.

      • A customer from Jersey, Channel Islands
      • Posted 27 Jun 2006 11:30

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  • Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    broken arrow

    good western plenty of action

      • ricky
      • Posted 30 Jan 2008 10:11

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