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Broken Lance
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.
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Price: $6.24
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| User Reviews |  | KING LEAR Goes West
rating: 5
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Spencer Tracy stars in BROKEN LANCE (1954), a powerful drama patterned after Shakespere's KING LEAR.
In truth, this western, which won a Writing Oscar for Philip Yordan, is a remake of a modern day film, HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949) that featured Edward G. Robinson in the Tracy role.
Tracy, appearing only in flashback sequences, is a ruthless cattle baron with four sons. The three eldest, including Richard Widmark, he treats like hired hands, favoring his youngest boy (Robert Wagner), who agrees to serve a three-year jail term in place of his father.
While he is incarcerated, the other sons double-cross Tracy, which results in his death and causes Wagner to seek revenge upon his release.
Jean Peters, Katy Jurado and Hugh O'Brian co-star in this excellent western.
© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)
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Broken Lance
rating: 5
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.
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Broken Lance
rating: 5
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
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CINEMASCOPE AT ITS BEST !!!!
rating: 4
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!!!
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Excellent All-Star Western
rating: 4
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 is very hard on the first three sons, but dotes on his other son and his wife. When a copper mine is found to be contaminating Devereaux's water supply, things come to a head.
The interaction between the family members seems genuine and rings true, unlike many other films. Tracy gives him usual brillant performance, and everyone else is great. Edward Dmytryk's direction sets the proper tone and mood for every scene. This is an extraordinarily good film, and one that's worth watching many, many times.
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