Broken Arrow (1950 film)

Broken Arrow is a western Technicolor film released in 1950. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred James Stewart as Tom Jeffords and Jeff Chandler as Cochise. The film is based on these 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 movie was one of the first major Westerns since the Second World War to portray the Indians sympathetically.

When Jeffords returns to Tucson, he encounters a prospector who escaped the ambush. He corrects a mans exaggerated account of the attack, but Ben Slade Will Geer asks how he knows what happened. Jeffords describes how he found the boy and the following events. Slade is incredulous and doesnt see why Jeffords didnt kill the boy. Jeffords is later asked to scout for the army but refuses.Jeffords learns the Apache language and customs, how to make and read smoke signals and plans to go to Cochises stronghold on behalf of his friend, Milt Arthur Hunnicut who is in charge of the mail service in Tucson. The Apaches have killed many couriers and for years have halted the delivery of mail. ........

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