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| Genre | Westerns |
| Format | Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC |
| Contributor | Charlton Heston, W.R. Burnett, James Anderson, Jack Palance, Brian Keith, Mary Sinclair, Katy Jurado, Frank DeKova, Charles Marquis Warren, Richard Shannon, Peter Coe, Milburn Stone, Lewis Martin, Robert J. Wilke See more |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 45 minutes |
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Set in Texas, ARROWHEAD stars Charlton Heston as Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon, an arrogant man raised by Apache who hates them with a vengeance. When the new Apache chief, Toriano, returns to his people after schooling in the Eastern U.S., Bannon senses the man isn't trustworthy and does not believe the Apaches will uphold the peace plan they have agreed to. With the U.S. Army anxious to send the Apaches to a reservation in Florida, they hope Bannon will not interfere.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.75 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Item model number : 1000370490
- Director : Charles Marquis Warren
- Media Format : Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 45 minutes
- Release date : November 9, 2004
- Actors : Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith, Mary Sinclair
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Paramount
- ASIN : B0002WZTE8
- Writers : Charles Marquis Warren, W.R. Burnett
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #150,356 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,555 in Westerns (Movies & TV)
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The history of the Apache wars and Al Sieber (the character Banyon) was quite different and this was a complete joke as far as those aspects,, on all accounts!
The character of toriano? Played by Jack Palance was I think, suppose to represent someone like Geronimo. Not even close,, and no apache would go east to school and come back as a full fledged warrior on return, with long hair,,laughs!. The only Chiricahua apaches that went east were sent there in a boxcar, to florida and oklahoma prisons, and died there. There was no "Ghost Dance" with the apache people,,, that was Lakota and other's. There were similar beliefs of ancestors returning but it wasn't called the ghost dance, which was started by a piute man named Wovoka! In the movie one of the officers scolded Banyon (Al Sieber) for not fighting at Gettysburg and wearing confederate pants. Al Sieber who was a german immigrant "did fight at gettysburg" and with the north! Al Sieber WAS NOT raised by apaches at all! He learned how to be a superb scout through other scouts and personal experience. He had sort of a love hate relationship with the scouts under him particularly "The apache Kid" who he took under his wing as a young man, but later turned on and made false testimony against! The Apache people were superb guerilla fighters and trackers and an awesome people whose lands were taken and who suffered many injustices at the hands of the white eyes, blue coats, and miners, as well as the general white population. They tried to frame Cochise and they killed one of the greatest chiefs, Mangus Colorado because he wanted to trust them and went for a 'Parley" against the advice of his fellow tribal members. The supposed peacemakers arrested him and because he was such a large person cut off his head and boiled it so they could send it to be studied! Need I go further? These early movies are like the history books that portray indians as uneducated savages and thats all. They have to be taken with a large grain of salt! The only similarities between Al Sieber and Banyon are maybe the hat. Oh and one other thing..In the scene where Toriano has a group of bluecoats trapped in some trees. They show the Apache warriors making a frontal assault in a straight line, perhaps better suited to the british red coats,,, not apaches who never fought that way, but used stealth and camouflage. That was really laughable! I would still watch the movie just for the landscape and a work of pure fiction!
bad script and bad directing, then you really should not watch westerns. This is a good
movie and it kind of sets the bar pretty high for some of the other westerns which look
pretty clownish compared to this. That is what 2 and three star ratings are for. I save the
one star ratings for BAD movies. But this is a 5 star movie.
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The film begins with a short skirmish between two army scouts, including Chief Scout Ed Bannon (Charlton Heston), and two Apache warriors. This incident is considered as extremely unwelcome by local US Cavalry commanders, as it seems that most of Apache tribes are now looking for a peace agreement. Local settlers are weary of years of war and are ready to go to great lengths to finish the conflict.
In fact, mixed blood half-Apaches, like a smoking hot girl named Nita (Katy Jurado) and her brother Spanish (Peter Coe) live already amongst the whites. Some young Apaches went also to white man schools to be educated and help build bridges between communities. The greatest hope for everybody in those lands is Toriano (Jack Palance), a very gifted and charismatic young man, son of an influent Apache chief, who obtained a scholarship and went to the college in East. Having recently graduated he is now due to come back, to the greatest joy of his fellow tribesmen but also many whites, many of whom were raised together with him (one of them is even his blood brother)...
But there is a shadow on this idyllic picture. Chief Scout Ed Bannon doesn't buy it all. He believes that this whole recent period of calm is just silence before the storm and all gestures of good will shown by Apaches are just a game. Bannon claims that Apaches are in fact preparing a major rebellion, one which will unite more tribes than ever before - and he even believes that fully assimilated and well educated (in fact better educated than Bannon himself) Toriano is the brain behind all this master plan...
Bannon, an experienced scout and veteran of many fights, who himself lived many years amongst the Apache and knows their language and customs, seems on the surface of things as somebody whose advice should count. But as what he says goes against the desires of local population and authorities, both military and civilians, absolutely everybody is outraged and incensed by what is considered as "warmongering".
It must be said that Bannon is NOT a nice fellow - to put things mildly... He has a short temper and bad manners, he completely lacks diplomacy and he also has the (well deserved) reputation of mistreating women, especially his half-blood mistress, Nita. Many cavalry soldiers also dislike him because he used to be a Confederate officer... As nobody is as blind as those who refuse to see, when Bannon discovers some evidence supporting his views, paradoxically it makes things even worse for him - he gets assaulted and beaten after which cavalry commanders order him to step down for a time from his functions and stay away from Indians, to avoid any further incidents, which could jeopardize peace process.
All this covers like the first ten minutes - and then the film REALLY begins and about the rest I will say no more...
This film is an adaptation of the novel "Adobe walls" by W. R. Burnett, who wrote many books adapted later to the screen, including "Little Caesar", "High Sierra" and "Asphalt Jungle". He also wrote the scenario for "The Great Escape".
The title of the book was quite appropriate, as adobe walls are indeed fragile - and can collapse easily... The title of the film however doesn't seem to have much to do with anything on the screen - except if one can consider Toriano as the sharp business end of the whole arrow made of hundreds of Apaches...
The character of Ed Bannon was supposedly inspired by that of Al Sieber, a real life famous scout who after fighting for the North in War Between States served later under general Crook in Apache Wars - but after reading a short biography of Sieber I really couldn't find ANY significant similarities, other than both of them being scouts and fighting against Indians.
This film is sometimes criticised for a very negative perception it gives of the Apaches (both full blooded and half-breeds), as it shows them as scheming, treacherous and especially EXTREMELY violent and cruel. Well, after reading some books about Apache Wars, I must say that I believe this film portrays them EXACTLY as they were - essentially very warlike Palaeolithic nomadic hunter-gatherers, who despised all peaceful trades like farming or cattle raising and based a large part of their economy and culture on raiding, looting and enslaving their less violent neighbours.
Well before any white people came, Apaches were already a scourge for those Indian tribes which opted for more sedentary and less warlike lifestyle - and it had consequence for their whole social life. Warlike nomadic populations which adopt predatory comportments are usually very proud, fierce and arrogant and tend to use cruelty as ways to scare and impress their prey. Furthermore, in those kind of societies the use of deceit, schemes and betrayal is also considered as a perfectly honourable way to act against "lesser" nations - which means all those with which such a group is currently at war...
To finish with the subject of deceit and treachery - although viciously cruel and violent, the Apaches were however fighting for their own land during their wars against USA and Mexico governments and as they couldn't match American and Mexican armies firepower, I can hardly blame them for using guerrilla tactics, "ruses de guerre", infiltration, double-agents and occasional perfidy...
That being said, I believe in this film the Apache are just a tool used to make a larger demonstration. The novel "Adobe Walls" was written in 1953, when Korean War was still raging. Because of that everybody still remembered how badly United States wanted peace after 1945 and how quickly the country disarmed - just to be taken completely by surprise when Stalin send his North Korean stooge against South Korea in 1950...
I believe that both the novel and the film address actually two issues revealed by Korean War. The first one is the voluntary blindness to the gathering clouds of war of people who, tired of fighting, desperately want peace. But to achieve peace it takes BOTH sides - and if one is really committed to wage war, then there WILL BE war, no matter what conciliatory measures the other one takes... The second issue is an aggressive and hostile reaction to people who say uncomfortable truths, which disturb the peace of mind of majority - especially when those seemingly wolf-crying naysayers are not very popular or for that matter very likeable to begin with... And yet, even the nastiest @holes can sometimes be right - and even if there is neither reason nor obligation to like them, it can be not such a bad idea to at least CHECK if they are not on to something real after all...
For all reasons mentioned above I consider "Arrowhead" as a very, very interesting film with a much deeper and complex scenario than one can think. I must however admit, that the very ending is anti-climactic and surprisingly weak - and therefore I cannot rate this film more than four stars. Still, it is a recommended viewing and I will keep preciously my DVD. Enjoy!












