Broken Lance (1954)

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

U

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 86 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cattle baron favors his youngest son over his older sons, which leads to bitter conflict and betrayal within the family. The story follows the aftermath of this favoritism and the struggle for control over the family ranch.

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What happens

Broken Lance is a 1954 American Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Sol C. Siegel. The film stars Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark and Katy Jurado. Shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope, the film is a remake of House of Strangers, with the Philip Yordan screenplay (based on the novel, I'll Never Go There Any More, by Jerome Weidman) transplanted out West, featuring Tracy in the original Edward G. Robinson role, this time as a cowboy cattle baron rather than an Italian banker in New York City. It has been widely noted that the story bears a strong resemblance to King Lear. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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