screenshots / Broken Arrow / 1950 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Starring James Stewart, the film is considered groundbreaking by some film historians as being one of the first Hollywood westerns to portray Native Americans in a sympathetic manner.

Exterior filming locations in Arizona include Oak Creek Canyon and Cathedral Rock in Sedona.

The film's cast also included Iron Eyes Cody (Massacre River), Jay Silverheels (Indian Paint) and John War Eagle (The Great Sioux Uprising).

Uncredited in the role of the young Apache boy Machogee, actor Robert Foster Dover later appeared in the films Indian Uprising and Lone Star, both released in 1952.

Robert Foster Dover passed in 1995 at the age of 60.