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...Albright's Woman, and dumbfounded by Joan Miro's Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird-in which the "Person" is a leg with an eye in its kneecap, the "Stone" is an egg trailing a dotted line, and the "Bird" looks like an unworkable bow & arrow...
...Broken Arrow (20th Century-Fox] makes an effective merger of the old western and the new problem picture. Pleading the cause of the U.S. Indian, whom Hollywood has been kicking around for years, the movie has plenty of gunplay, hoofbeats and crisply Technicolored vistas to keep it from getting preachy...
Before working its anthropology lesson into the action, Broken Arrow views the notorious Apaches through the eyes of the white settlers, building a fearsome picture of their terrorism around an Arizona outpost. A frontiersman (James Stewart), tired of the fighting, gets the crazy notion that Cochise may listen to reason. Ignoring the scorn and warnings of the other settlers, he schools himself in the Apache language and lore, sends up introductory smoke signals and rides off alone into the dreaded Indian territory. Director Delmer (Destination Tokyo) Daves puts a fine edge of suspense on Stewart's long ride...
...Flame and the Arrow (Warner) gives ex-Acrobat Burt Lancaster something he really knows how to do. Almost a spoof of the kind of swashbuckling gymnastics that made Douglas Fairbanks famous, the movie is built around a tumbling act. Feebly disguised as a band of gay rogues in 12th Century Lombardy, Lancaster and some old circus associates swing from chandeliers, draperies and trapezes, drop from trees and balconies, climb ropes and poles and all over each other...
Both pictures lack several features essential to Excellent Westerns. There is no Old Stranger, no real chase, no duels at sunup, no good saloon scenes, no cavalry, and no murdered budides. Only once does a man pull an arrow out of his chest. One redeeming feature is that the women, one in each picture, are quite attractive. Of course, both are filmed in Glorious Technicolor...