Broken Lance
First screened in August 2015
Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Wagner, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Katy Jurado, Hugh O'Brian, Earl Holliman, Eduard Franz, E.G. Marshall, Philip Ober, Carl Benton Reid, Robert Burton, Robert Adler. Screenplay: Richard Murphy (based on an original screen story by Philip Yordan). Twitter Capsule:
Tentative critique of male ego, settler patriarchy. Tentative stab at frontier Lear. Tentative love story. Tentative.
VOR:③
Have to give it credit for pressing against some limits and raw nerves in Native representation, the western genre, and alpha-dog idolatry, even if it hedges bets.
