Little Big Man / Broken Arrow January 19, 2008

Upending almost every conceivable convention of westerns, Little Big Man stars Dustin Hoffman as a 121-year-old man who reminisces about his adventurous life as a pioneer, an adopted Indian, a disgraced snake oil huckster, and a survivor of Custer’s Last Stand. (139 mins., 35mm)

Broken Arrow stars Jimmy Stewart as an ex-soldier trying to broker a peace with Apache Chief Cochise (Jeff Chandler) and nearby settlers. The film is credited as being one of the first Hollywood films to more sensitively portray Native Americans. (93 mins., 35mm)

Second film starts 9:30 PM.

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