Broken Arrow (1950 film)

Broken Arrow
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDelmer Daves
Screenplay byAlbert Maltz
Based onBlood Brother by Elliott Arnold
Produced byJulian Blaustein
Starring
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byJ. Watson Webb Jr.
Music byHugo Friedhofer
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • July 20, 1950 (1950-07-20)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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]

  1. ^ Top 20 Films of 1950 by Domestic Revenue
  2. ^ John H. Lenihan, Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980, pp. 55–89.