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Broken Lance

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Oscar-winning western starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner. Rancher Matt Devereaux is obsessed with keeping his cattle empire together. But when he leads a raid on a copper mine to stop the pollution of his land, it leads to trouble for his youngest son, Joe.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Tony Sloman

In this splendid 20th Century-Fox western, a magnificently grizzled Spencer Tracy stars in the role he was born to play - King Lear. Even though the daughters have become sons, this is the (uncredited) westernisation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the royal patriarch and his disparate family. It's also a remake of House of Strangers, the Joseph L Mankiewicz crime drama that was also remade in the big-top setting of The Big Show. Still, despite the claims for Akira Kurosawa's Ran, this is the definitive screen version of the Bard's celebrated work, and the western setting provides a dimension of grandeur: it's no accident, surely, that this was one of the first subjects used to show off the then new CinemaScope process.

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6.9/10

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Cast

rolenameMatt DevereauxSpencer TracyJoe DevereauxRobert WagnerBarbaraJean PetersBenRichard WidmarkSenora DevereauxKaty JuradoMike DevereauxHugh O'BrianTwo MoonsEduard FranzDenny DevereauxEarl HollimanGovernorE G MarshallClem LawtonCarl Banton ReidVan ClevePhilip OberMac AndrewsRobert BurtonO'ReillyRobert Adler

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rolenameDirectorEdward Dmytryk

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Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd

Languages

English | Spanish

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour

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