GUENOT PHILIPPE This is for me the most racist western of all time. At least, one of the most, because perhaps some are missing in my movie buff memory...It tells the terrific face too face between a racist white man, raised among Indians - Charlton Heston - who HATES Indians to death, and an authentic Indian, raised among white people, in white schools - Jack Palance - who HATES White ones...So their only purpose is to destroy each other. It's exciting at the most, not for the squeamish filled with good intentions. This is really a war monger western. Charlton Heston is here tall, handsome, strong, the authentic hero as American are used to show in their features. But he is a f...racist, and some people in the audiences may be influenced by his feeling about Indians. We can say it's somewhere disgusting. The same thing about Jack Palance. He is tall, handsome, strong, wild, attractive at the most, and he preaches war and destruction for the White people...Get what I mean? Nothing to do with James Stewart and Jeff Chandler in BROKEN ARROW....But, even if it is nasty, it remains a very good feature, a great western. It changes from anti racist or pro Indian ones.And I LOVE being surprised !!!There have been some films with their leads who were racists or bad ones, but the audiences got very quickly that the heroes were actually anti heroes, and they finally understood that they were on the wrong way. The audiences were not confused about that. Those movies denounced racism or something else...Take CROSSFIRE, for example, starring Robert Ryan.But that's for another comment...

drystyx This is the movie which gave Heston the persona of the self righteous bigot of the movies. It is an action filled Western, true, and Brian Keith actually plays a more likable character than either Heston or Palance. Palance probably felt sick about the role he played in this movie which can only be described as a "hate film". There has never been a movie before or after this one which depicted native Americans so horribly, in such a way reminiscent of Nazi propaganda against Jewish people. This is the movie people are talking about when they talk about such sick junk. I'll try not to spoil it too much. It's told from the punk's point of view (I imagine, but it is the most insane point of view you'll ever see I hope). I will say that the "hero" sleeps with an Apache woman, kills her brother, then kills her, and after he kills her in his room, he tells a cavalry guard "There's a dead Apache on my floor. Get it out!" The punkiness leaves you speechless. It left people speechless when the movie was made, it was so insane! Somehow, the director must have thought he justified the wacko's actions, but he failed. Words can't describe how horrible this movie is. If you watch it, you'll be stunned with the fact someone duped you into wasting your time, and you'll be stunned that so many people actually spent so much time, effort, and alleged talent making this garbage.

bkoganbing Arrowhead is one of that batch of films that Charlton Heston did between his two DeMille pictures, some good, some mediocre. Arrowhead kind of falls between both categories.It is one of the most uncompromising films in terms of the place of the American Indian. It's point is that the more we get rid of, the more room for the whites. So either pack 'em off to reservations or kill them. At least Charlton Heston's character feels that way.Now there apparently is some justification for Heston's feelings at least as far as this group of Apaches are concerned. He was raised among them and knows them well. And knows that the young warrior prince. Jack Palance, is not going to go quietly off to a reservation.None of which is really explored in the finished product. I have the feeling the editors left a lot of this film on the cutting room floor. Also Heston's relationship with Katy Jurado who acts as a spy while living without benefit of clergy with him is similarly untouched. But for that I blame the Code. What there is is quite daring for its time.The ending is kind of silly also. When he has the drop on Palance, Palance asks Heston why he doesn't shoot him. Good question Jack, I can't figure it out either. More I won't say.The film was shot on location in Texas and done very well. Palance, fresh off the acclaim he received from Shane, has the best role in the film. This is also an early film for Brian Keith and he acquits himself well as a young cavalry officer.But Arrowhead could have been a whole lot better.

filmnoirfilms-1 I've seen a lot of westerns but this film is probably the most racist piece of trash ever made. The action sequences are ok but the real problem with it is absolutely everybody is characterized to be pure evil, with the exception of Brian Keith who just appears to be stupid. Every Indian acts like a crazy, murderous savage and the hero (?), Heston (Over acting in the extreme) is the nastiest character in any western film history I've ever seen.Don't waste your time!