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*** “Broken Arrow.”
Key . $19.98.
This pleasant, good-hearted little western about the relationship between a white settler (Jimmy Stewart) and the Apache Chief Cochise (Jeff Chandler) probably delivered one of the strongest and most effective popular pleas for racial tolerance of any early-’50s American movie. Written by later blacklist victim Michael Blankfort and directed by Delmer Daves, it’s a likable film--popular kitsch at its most amiable--and it holds your sympathy even when you notice how little Jeff Chandler or Debra Paget look like real native Americans.
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