Broken Lance
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| Directed by | Edward Dmytryk |
| Produced by | Sol C. Siegel |
| Written by |
Philip Yordan (story) Richard Murphy (screenplay) |
| Based on |
I'll Never Go There Any More 1941 novel by Jerome Weidman |
| Starring |
Spencer Tracy Robert Wagner Jean Peters Richard Widmark Katy Jurado |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
| Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,685,000 |
| Box office | $3.8 million (US rentals) |
Broken Lance is a 1954 Western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Sol C. Siegel. The movie stars Spencer Tracy and features 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 I'll Never Go There Any More by Jerome Weidman), transplanted out west, featuring Tracy in the original Edward G. Robinson role, this time as a cowboy cattle baron rather than a Lower East Side Italian immigrant banker in New York City.
Matthew Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has built an enormous ranch and mining empire; and raising his sons to carry on his fierce, hard-working Irish settlement spirit, that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he's never shown these three now all grown up men (by his late first wife); a families' affection as a father. He also treats these now these full grown men (in their 30s to their 40s) only a little better than the hired help. Even though they are now, as he's aged; practically running as well as managing day-to-day operations of the ranch and its other enterprises, full time. Matt Devereaux still retains sole and complete decisional authority, angering his eldest son in the process; by reserving even the smallest decisions to himself. But he's united all of his first wife's sons against him; for reasons that have nothing to do with either the ranch, or its management.
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