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Bookmark this pageBroken Lance (1954)
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Internecine family struggles, hijacked from Mankiewicz's excellent House of Strangers to provide a gripping if hardly original Western. Tracy is the Lear-like patriarch dismayed to discover that filial strife and betrayal is threatening his cattle empire. Strong performances, ably augmented by Joe MacDonald's lovely 'Scope camerawork.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Producer: Sol C Siegel
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Hugh O'Brien full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 96 mins
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