| Broken Arrow | |
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| Directed by | Delmer Daves |
| Screenplay by | Albert Maltz |
| Based on | Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold |
| Produced by | Julian Blaustein |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Edited by | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.6 million (US rentals)[1] |
Broken Arrow is a 1950 American revisionist Western 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 since the Second World War to portray Native Americans sympathetically.[2]
- ^ Top 20 Films of 1950 by Domestic Revenue
- ^ John H. Lenihan, Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980, pp. 55–89.