Best movie of this year hands down!

Simply Perfect

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I saw this movie a few times back a while and then just watched it. First, James Stewart gets shot twice at point blank range and survives, and wants ro kill tbe people thay just shot him, joke as are most movies with violence. Second, Debra Paget was 15 years old at the start of filming. That is awfully young to be a romantic lead with a 41 year old Stewart . It, really shows how people, especially white people , their own people, that they should protect goes out their way for a cause that was achieved, or lack there of, 80 or so years early than this movie. But because people never give up on these so called causes that we have issue and problems. It was, as usual, a movie in the late 40s and through the 1950s that broached a so called cause. This cause, as I said earlier, was finished and done but they, the "Holywood" people want to use this not as a call to help the Red man but to try and parallel it, the Red man's cause, with the issues of the day, that day or days was the early 1950s. And it works because after reading a lot of reviews, from today's people, they are sympethic with the plight of a people, yet not being there and not having their whole super close family and friends wiped out. And those people, today, still talk about it and act like it is so difficult to make it in the U.S.A. today. Well, the movie, as usual, is a piece that wants to make a point, even at the expense of their own people. The issue is that the reviewers here, if in charge then, would have done the same thing , but sitting here and comfortable it is easy to pass judgment on those that were distraught and left alone in the middle of the southwest. If these reviewers were in charge of the country from the beginning there would not be a country and all of the people of the world that were being destroyed would not have a place to go for freedom. People that come to this country , like my grandparents were happy as h__l to be here and sent 4 boys to WW 2 because it was America and who cares if the enemy may be tour ancestors. They were called names by all sorts of the people in this country but knew they were the sacrifice for their children and grandchildren and so on to put a great foothold on America and not worry about where they came from but move forward and speak the dominant language instead of their own. But the reviewers are making this movie larger than it is. Because they think of others so they can get their pat on the back, but stick by your own through, not only the good but the not so good, but no matter the ill and the ill will be fixed id really, really, really wrong, then we will be one people, be one peoples and we will have a greater peace than ever before. Until then movies like these will always fuel the mind of the young to do things they normally would not do and it may have started with their parents who when they were young filled their minds. It's a nice little western, but when I watch movies it is so tiring to see what they do to a movie instead of making it entertaining. FORGET THE POINT JUST ENTERTAIN. Thanks God Bless James

It's no bad thing that serious students of Cinema will always have to deal with this as it represented a forward step in terms of the time (1950) in which it was made and the climate of the time. Seen for the first time in the second decade of the21st century when what may be called reverse ethnic cleansing has seen deification bestowed on everyone from Ghengis Khan to Hitler, Stalin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all we may well find nothing remarkable in a film that portrayed the Apache as a Human Being with a 'prick us, do we not bleed' point of view but in 1950 this was revolutionary. Albert Maltz - ironically blacklisted at the time - turned his screenplay over to the capable hands of Delmer Daves, James Stewart and Jeff Chandler, who treated it respectfully and wrought a fine movie out of it.

One of the first revisionist Westerns. I had to watch Broken Arrow for my dissertation on the genre and it was quite a pleasant surprise, but not without its flaws. It's incredibly dated with a studio aesthetic it can't overcome. Dialogue is very on-the-nose, emotions are all on the surface. But it does have an interesting sympathetic portrayal of Native Indians with an unusually pacifist protagonist, played by the always welcome James Stewart. It's a shame that it can't quite get passed its racial caricatures. Mostly watchable for Stewart as ever. Short and sweet helps.7/10

Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is an enlightened white man who saves an Apache boy. He is pulled into the conflict between the Apaches and local white folks. He ends up trying to bring peace between the Apaches and the US government.Apaches leader Cochise and the rest of his people are portrayed as real people more or less even if they are being played by white actors. We're not completely enlightened yet. It's got a good message. There are good fight scenes and good acting. I do wish it was more realistic with a more gritty rougher feel but that may be asking too much. It is still a western from it's era. One of the good things is that not all the Indians are noble. Not all of them go along with peace. In that sense, it's more realistic.