Arrowhead (1953 film)

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Arrowhead
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Charlton Heston and Katy Jurado
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Screenplay by Charles Marquis Warren
Based onAdobe Walls
1953 novel
by W.R.Burnett
Produced by Nat Holt
Starring Charlton Heston
Jack Palance
Katy Jurado
Brian Keith
Milburn Stone
Cinematography Ray Rennahan
Edited by Frank Bracht
Music by Paul Sawtell
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • August 3, 1953 (1953-08-03)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.2 million (US) [1]

Arrowhead is a 1953 Western Technicolor film directed by Charles Marquis Warren (1912-1990), starring Charlton Heston, and featuring a supporting cast including Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith and Milburn Stone. The picture is based on the 1953 novel Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett (1899-1982). The screenplay was also by Charles Marquis Warren of Baltimore.

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Plot

Maverick scout Ed Bannon (Charlton Heston), a ficionalized depiction of real-life Army scout Al Sieber (1843-1907), is working with Army cavalry stationed at Fort Clark, near Brackettville, Texas. The United States Army Cavalry is trying to talk peace with the native Apaches and move them to reservations far to the East in Florida. Bannon's activities seem counterproductive to this new policy. Toriano (Jack Palance), the son of the Apache chief, returns from an Eastern white education. Bannon is suspicious of his motives and their mutual distrust of each other is eventually resolved by single man combat.

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References

  1. ↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
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