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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543172758
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 25470
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 1954
Editorial Review:
Description:
The feisty, domineering cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Tracy) rules his vast empire with a ruthless hand. Because Matt's greatest love id for his Indian wife, Princess (Jurado) and their son Joe, Matt's three sons from a previous marriage deeply resent them. After Joe agrees to go to jail for a crime his father commits, he returns three years later to a different world-his father has died and his vengeful brothers control the land.
Amazon.com:
Broken Lance is a noble entry in the trend of adult Westerns of the early 1950s, scoring on a couple of fronts: (1) as a multigenerational saga, with Shakespearian overtones, of a family bickering over a giant ranch, and (2) as a grown-up look at the dilemma of the Native American... its title perhaps inspired by the Indian-friendly Broken Arrow? Spencer Tracy stars as the blustery patriarch of a cattle spread, threatened by pollution from a nearby copper mine as well as the shiftiness of his older sons (Richard Widmark, Hugh O'Brian, and Earl Holliman). Tracy's bluff characterization--as ever, he seems to be yanking at the script like a cat unraveling a ball of yarn--carries the film effortlessly along. The central character is actually his youngest and wisest son, played by Robert Wagner, who's not especially convincing as the mixed-race issue of Tracy's second marriage, to an Indian woman (Oscar nominee Katy Jurado). Edward Dmytryk directs in a style that could be called 'intelligent,' which is another way of saying 'not very exciting.' The early CinemaScope probably accounts for some of the static set-ups, although there are exteriors that are breathtaking (watching this film in its full-screen version would be crazy). The cast is certainly tops; Widmark is overqualified to play a third lead, but who's complaining? Most memorable is the loving relationship between Tracy's cattleman and his Indian wife, although the subject of Native Americans is secondary here (check out The Devil's Doorway and Apache for more overt Fifties looks at the topic). Veteran screenwriter Philip Yordan won an Oscar for his 'original story,' a curious and long-defunct Academy Award category. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Broken Lance
Spencer Tracey and Robert Wagner give outstanding performances in this Western with a difference.When they find their water supply has been polluted by the neighbouring mine owners battle begins. The ensuing trial brings a surprise outcome.
Great viewing - highly recommended.
Rating: - Broken Lance
This Classic is done very well, The Actors were very good. The time period this movie is set in is very accurate. Those of us who grow up in the cattle country have been told by family that were there. About the real Problems of clean water,the Wire,the Rustling, & the Eastern Big Business Practices this movie protrays.
Jerry
Rating: - CINEMASCOPE AT ITS BEST !!!!
This is the way movies used to be photographed in Cinemascope ! Unfortunately all too often todays films seem to forget they are made for the wide screen and seem to be shot for the square tv screen with everything happening in the middle. This film has broad scope and wonderful scenery! Spencer tracey is great as usual and Robert Wagner looks like he does now except for a few wrinkles , some gray hair and a few more pounds! I enjoyed this movie and its grand spectacle greatly!!!
Rating: - Excellent All-Star Western
Broken Lance is a magnificently performed and directed Western that is truly King Lear on the prairie, but also has well-developed characters, excellent writing, excellent acting, and first rate location filming.
Spencer Tracy is the head of the Devereaux clan, a family that includes a Native American wife (played by Katy Jurado), a half-breed son with Jurado (played by Robert Wagner), and three sons from Tracy's first marriage (Richard Widmark, Hugh O'Brian, and Earl Holliman). Devereaux ... Read More
Rating: - A first-rate adult Western...
Tracy is a believable cowboy, nicely balanced for handling a bull whip, riding dangerously the hills...
Tracy plays a despot, absolute ruler cattle baron "making the wrong move with the wrong people," using his force to restrain the pollution of his cattle's stream: "The river is on my land. You are on my land. You close this operation down."
His first three sons (Widmark, O'Brien and Holliman) were unanimously disappointing to him... He considered them cattle thieves, treating ... Read More
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