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Broken Arrow (1950)

Broken Arrow poster
Directed by
Delmer Daves
Genre
Western film, revisionist Western, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
12
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 223 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A former soldier tries to make peace between white settlers and the Apache tribe in Arizona. He falls in love with an Apache woman and faces distrust from both sides.

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What happens

Broken Arrow is a 1950 American independent revisionist Western drama film directed by Delmer Daves and starring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget. The film is based on historical figures but fictionalizes their story in dramatized form. It was nominated for three Academy Awards and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding. Film historians have said that the film was one of the first major Westerns to portray Native American sympathetically. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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