Broken lance, spencer tracy, robert wagner, richard widmark 1954, edward dmytryk desperado, alex mcarthur, yaphet kotto 1987 tv. Winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Son joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Circle z ranch 1476 highway 82, patagonia, arizona, usa see more. Broken trail weaves together two historical events. Broken lance is an unofficial transposition of joseph l. The golden age of the b western, with lowbudget, bpicture horse operas, was coming to an end. Rob roy is a 1995 american biographical historical drama film directed by michael catonjones. Yordan won an academy award for best original story for his work on the film. Broken lance cast and crew cast photos and info fandango. Indie film broken shooting in king george and colonial. Many wellknown western movies and tv series were filmed on or near the empire ranch. The movie is filled with spectacular climbing footage, and incredible vistas.
The film stars spencer tracy, robert wagner, jean peters, richard widmark, and katy jurado shot in deluxe color and cinemascope, the film is a remake of house of strangers 1949 with the phillip yordan screenplay based upon the novel ill never go there any more by jerome. Broken lance bluray twilight time limited edition 1954 color 2. Jan 31, 2019 the broken relics new single off the with reverance ep filmed and edited by lance rosko produced by john burke vibe studios recorded at the record shop nashville. In 1955, jurado filmed trial, directed by mark robson, with glenn ford. Mankiewiczs 1948 film noir house of strangers, a very good movie that recounts a king learlike struggle for power among the sons of a corrupt firstgeneration italian banker in new york city. Broken lance has many admirers, and there are many good things about this sober western. Some of the early tv westerns were derived from bigscreen features. Broken lance is a magnificently performed and directed western that is truly king lear on the prairie, but also has welldeveloped characters, excellent writing, excellent acting, and first rate location filming. Actress katy jurado was nominated for an oscar for best supporting actress.
Broken lance 1954 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Broken lance is a 1954 american technicolor western film directed by edward dmytryk and produced by sol c. Joe macdonalds stunning cinemascope landscape shots partially filmed on location in arizona, the strong acting by tracy, wagner, widmark and a marvelously sensitive performance by jurado she received a best supporting actress nomination, plus yordans tightly drawn original story winning him an oscar, and that the film was pc before. With spencer tracy, robert wagner, jean peters, richard widmark. The saga of the devereaux rancher family, set in 1880s arizona. Ship date november 10, 2015 available through twilight time movies 29. Cattle baron matt devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. The film was an early revisionist western in which traditional settings and characters are given added psychological depth through the realities of encroaching law and order, and the king learlike study of sons robert wagner and richard widmark turned against one another. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. Broken lance is a 1954 western film made by twentieth centuryfox, directed by edward dmytryk and produced by sol c.
Richard widmark, jean peters, robert wagner, spencer tracy. Although broken lance did not attract much attention, she was critically acclaimed for her performance in apache. Legal files list elgin and nogales, az, as specific location sites. Journal of american sign languages and literatures. Watch broken lance online stream full movie directv. Broken lance is an intriguing mixture of western tropesits difficult not to compare its themes to other, more famous titles within the genre. It was filmed in vistavision you know its a journey between two brothers and the guilt that one carries for what he perceives to be his failings in raising the younger. The broken lance is a lance appearing exclusively in the snes installments of the fire emblem series.
Westerns began dominating television during the 1950s and 60s when the most popular shows were bonanza, wagon train, and rawhide. Movies filmed at the ranch empire ranch foundation. Robert wagner plays the young brother who only cares for money and greed. In both stories the grand patriarch of a successful family finds himself surrounded by. On the day of his release from prison, the son of a cattle baron swears vengeance on his three halfbrothers responsible for dispossessing him of his inheritance and driving his father to a fatal stroke. Born today most popular celebs most popular celebs. Broken lance 1954 full movie download full hd youtube. The ensuing story unfolds in flashback, tracing the sibling rivalries that led to the mans imprisonment. Liam neeson stars as rob roy macgregor, an 18thcentury scottish clan chief who battles with an unscrupulous nobleman in the scottish highlands. Although the saga of the selfmade, autocratic cattle baron who helped shape the west is familiar film fare, broken lance, which landed at the roxy yesterday, makes a refreshingly serious and. But it paid off because the film stands up today as a picture of some distinction. Find release information for broken lance 1954 edward dmytryk on allmovie. It starred spencer tracy, katy jurado, richard widmark, robert wagner, jean peters, and hugh obrian. Broken arrow is a 1996 american action thriller film directed by john woo, written by graham yost, and starring john travolta, christian slater, and samantha mathis.
Find movie and film award information for broken lance 1954 edward dmytryk on allmovie. Broken lance is a film directed by edward dmytryk with spencer tracy, robert wagner, jean peters, richard widmark, year. Sep 02, 2018 this feature is not available right now. The film is based on these historical figures but fictionalizes their story in dramatized form. In 1954, jurado was chosen to play spencer tracys comanche wife in the film broken lance, directed by edward dmytryk. The movie was filmed on location in calgary, alberta. Of note is an early sequence where dop joseph macdonald utilized a doorway framed shot comparable to the famous, influential sequence from john fords the searchers, which would come along two. Broken lance, which is basically a western retelling of shakespeares king lear, stars the legendary spencer tracy as a stern rancher whose relationship with his four sons leads to envy, resentment, and even violence. The films main themes include the theft of two american nuclear weapons, the attempts of u. Broken lance, spencer tracy, robert wagner, richard widmark 1954, edward dmytryk.
Although the saga of the selfmade, autocratic cattle baron who helped shape the west is familiar film fare, broken lance, which landed at the. Katy jurado with spencer tracy in broken lance 1954 in the same year, jurado appeared with kirk douglas in the henry hathaway film the racers. Foxs early cinemascope and stereophonic sound western is a transposition of a film noir mystery thriller. Seems too bad so much of the story by philip yordan is told via an unnecessary flashback. Sep 07, 20 swift tv 9920 filmed at blandford forum carnival. Broken lance also made for a great vehicle for young 20th century fox contractee robert wagner, as the halfbreed youngest son of spencer tracys bullish rancher, matthew devereaux. Shot in technicolor, it was directed by delmer daves and starred james stewart as tom jeffords and jeff chandler as cochise. According to information in the twentieth centuryfox legal files at the ucla artsspecial collections library, richard murphys screenplay for broken lance was based on philip yordans screenplay for the 1949 twentieth centuryfox film house of strangers see below.
Join sign up keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all. The film has been called an updated king lear an allpowerful, tyrannical father unwisely cedes control land to his children, all turning against him except for the youngest, who is the most illused but the adaptation is loose and mercifully unliteral. A broken lance can continue to be wielded, but has low accuracy and might along with high weight. For 1954s broken lance, the story was transposed to the wideopen country during the late 19th century, featuring spencer tracy as a hardbitten cattle baron. View more property details, sales history and zestimate data on zillow. Whenever a lance in any of those games reaches 0 remaining uses, it will become a broken lance. Psycho records himself breaking into my house youtube. Tyrannical cattle baron matt devereaux spencer tracy has. As the film opens, wagners joe devereaux has been released from prison, burning with resentment over his fathers death. Broken arrow 1950 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Finally esther williams and cliff robertson starred in 1961s the big show, set in the world of a. The publicity material also notes that ninety percent of the picture was filmed in arizonas santa cruz valley. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies.
Broken lance soundtrack from 2001, composed by leigh harline. Broken lance lanza rota 1954 full movie barry stillwell. If you are a current 2day or more subscriber to the free lancestar newspaper you are granted an allaccess pass to the website and digital newspaper replica. Peters in the trailer for the film broken lance 1954 other 1954 films costarring peters were the westerns apache borrowed by warner bros and broken lance. Great job by all involved certainly richard widmark. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing broken lance near you.