Arrowhead (1953 film)

105 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$1.2 million (US)^[1]

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

Plot

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

Cast

• Charlton Heston as Ed Bannon
• Jack Palance as Toriano
• Katy Jurado as Nita
• Brian Keith as Capt. Bill North
• Mary Sinclair as Lela Wilson
• Milburn Stone as Sandy MacKinnon
• Richard Shannon as Lt. Kirk
• Lewis Martin as Col. Weybright
• Frank DeKova as Chief Chattez
• Robert J. Wilke as Sgt. Stone
• Peter Coe as Spanish
• Kyle James as Jerry August
• John Pickard as John Gunther
• Pat Hogan as Jim Eagle
• Mike Ragan as Corporal Ives

References

External links

• Arrowhead at IMDb
• Arrowhead at AllMovie
• Arrowhead at the TCM Movie Database
• Arrowhead at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Charlton Heston at IMDb
• Jack Palance at IMDb