Arrowhead is a 1953 Western Technicolor film written and directed by Charles Marquis Warren (1912–1990), starring Charlton Heston, and featuring a supporting cast including Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith and Milburn Stone. The picture is based on the 1953 novel Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett (1899–1982).
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Plot
Maverick scout Ed Bannon (Charlton Heston), a fictionalized depiction of real-life Army scout Al Sieber (1843–1907), is working with Army cavalry stationed at Fort Clark, near Brackettville, Texas. The United States Army Cavalry is trying to talk peace with the native Apaches and move them to reservations far to the East in Florida. Bannon's activities seem counterproductive to this new policy. Toriano (Jack Palance), the son of the Apache chief, returns from an Eastern white education. Bannon is suspicious of his motives and their mutual distrust of each other is eventually resolved by single man 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