Broken Arrow
1950 · 93 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 10,108 VOTES · DIR. Delmer Daves
Overview
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,136 lines
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00:01:25 This is the story of a land...
00:05:15 It never struck me that an Apache woman would cry over her son...
00:08:25 They wanted to kill me all right, but they let me go.
00:13:03 Apaches playing fair? Yes. _
00:15:20 A snooty little lieutenant fresh out of the east started it.
00:17:18 No white man's seen Cochise in ten years...
00:23:18 You will hold these for me?
00:26:25 ...and tomorrow they'll be fewer.
00:29:54 The path of you people is stretched long behind you...
00:33:36 They meet.
00:36:36 Cochise never said anything about calling off the war.
00:40:41 They're cutting off the cavalry!
00:46:32 I'm grateful to you, General. - I don't want your gratitude.
00:49:03 My feet are tired from trying to find you by accident.
00:52:50 I know that. They do not.
00:56:42 Think...
01:00:19 It is not your knife. It is an Apache knife.
01:04:08 This is a sort of picture writing.
01:07:32 I will give my word to the American General tonight.
01:10:47 But the 90 days of the armistice began.
01:15:11 It has gone well for twelve days. I still wait to be glad.
01:19:50 Sometime...
01:24:44 He got away! It's a bust!
01:28:30 END
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,136
Dialogue density12.2 lines / min
First line00:01:25
Final line01:28:30
Production Record
DirectorDelmer Daves
LanguageEnglish
Revenue$3,600,000
IMDb votes10,108