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''Broken Arrow'' is a western Technicolor film released in 1950. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred James Stewart as Tom Jeffords and Jeff Chandler as Cochise. The film is based on these historical figures but fictionalizes their story in dramatized form. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won a Golden Globe award for ''Best Film Promoting International Understanding.'' Film historians have said that the movie was one of the first major Westerns since the Second World War to portray the Indians sympathetically.〔John H. Lenihan, ''Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film'', Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980, pp. 55–89.〕 ==Plot== Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) comes across a wounded, 14-year-old Apache boy dying from buckshot wounds in his back. Jeffords gives the boy water and heals his wounds. The boy's tribesmen appear and are at first hostile, but decide to let Jeffords go free. However, a group of gold prospectors happens by, and the Apache gag Jeffords and tie him to a tree. Helpless, he watches as they attack the prospectors and torture the survivors. The warriors then let him go but warn him not to enter Apache territory again. When Jeffords returns to Tucson, he encounters a prospector who escaped the ambush. He corrects a man's exaggerated account of the attack, but Ben Slade (Will Geer) asks how he knows what happened. Jeffords describes how he found the boy and the following events. Slade is incredulous and doesn't see why Jeffords didn't kill the boy. Jeffords is later asked to scout for the army but refuses. Jeffords learns the Apache language and customs, how to make and read smoke signals and plans to go to Cochise's stronghold on behalf of his friend, Milt (Arthur Hunnicut) who is in charge of the mail service in Tucson. The Apaches have killed many couriers and for years have halted the delivery of mail. Jeffords enters the Apache stronghold with the aid of smoke signals and begins a parley with Cochise, comparing the mail service to smoke signals. Cochise agrees to let the couriers through. Tom meets a young Apache girl, Sonseeahray (Debra Paget), and falls in love. The Apaches allow the mail riders to travel to Tucson. However, a few of Cochise's warriors attack an army wagon train and kill the survivors. The townsfolk nearly lynch Jeffords as a traitor before he is saved by General Oliver Otis Howard (Basil Ruysdael), who recruits Jeffords to negotiate peace with Cochise. Howard (called the "Christian General") condemns racism, saying that the Bible "says nothing about pigmentation of the skin." Jeffords tells him to read the Bible aloud because he likes the way Howard reads it. Jeffords makes a peace treaty with Cochise, but a group led by Geronimo (Jay Silverheels) oppose the treaty and leave the stronghold. Jeffords accompanies the first Butterfield stagecoach in five years, to leave Tucson during the three months set aside by Cochise. Apache renegades ambush the coach as it stops at a river. Jeffords rides off to seek help from Cochise and the stagecoach is saved. Jeffords and Sonseeahray marry in an Apache ceremony and have several days of tranquility. Later, Ben Slade's son rides in, accompanied by two of Cochise's tribesmen, who found him up the canyon with a rifle. He then spins a story to Jeffords and Cochise about two of his horses being stolen by Cochise's people. Cochise says that his people did not take them and that he's a liar. Jeffords also doubts his story, as he knows the boys father is an Apache hater. They then decide to go along with the boy back up the canyon so that they can prove there are no signs of his horses ever being there. They stop where the boy indicates the tracks are and are ambushed by the boy's father and a gang of men from Tucson. Jeffords is badly wounded and Sonseeahray is killed but Cochise kills most of the men, including Ben Slade, and gets away. The remaining men retreat, fearing reprisal by the military. Cochise rides back with his men but forbids Jeffords to retaliate, saying that the ambush was not done by the military and that Geronimo broke the peace no less than Slade and his men and that basically, peace must be maintained for the sake of everyone. In the end, Jeffords rides off with the belief that "the death of Sonseeahray had put a seal upon the peace, and from that day on wherever I went, in the cities, among the Apaches and in the mountains, I always remembered, my wife was with me". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Broken Arrow (1950 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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