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Broken Lance is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Dmytryk released in USA on 25 september 1954 with Spencer Tracy
Broken Lance (1954)
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Add to a movie listBroken 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 and Richard Widmark,.
Shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope, the film is a remake of House of Strangers (1949) with the Phillip Yordan screenplay (based upon a novel by Jerome Weidman called I'll Never Go Home Any More), 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.
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Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working Irish settlement spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he never learned to show his three sons from his first marriage the affection they yearned for and treats his boys little better than the hired help.Actors
Spencer Tracy
(Matt Devereaux)
Robert Wagner
(Joe Devereaux)
Jean Peters
(Barbara)
Richard Widmark
(Ben Devereaux)
Katy Jurado
(Señora Devereaux)
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