Joe Dayton is in charge of building a railroad through a section of northwestern Canada. Jacques Durand, a bandit whose territory the railroad is to run though, knows that if it is completed it will bring law and order and drive him out, so he sets out to stop it any way he can--and the fact that he and Dayton look enough like each other to be twins makes his job somewhat easier.


The Broken Spur "In the shadow of progress, the outlaw’s cry is a lament for the land he cannot let go." J. Grubb Alexander’s The Broken Spur is a film that thrives on paradoxes. It is a story of duality told through the lives of two men so alike in appearance that their shared visage becomes a weapon. Joe Dayto...


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" The Broken Spur "In the shadow of progress, the outlaw’s cry is a lament for the land he cannot let go." J. Grubb Alexander’s The Broken Spur is a film that thrives on paradoxes. It is a story of duality told through the lives of two men so alike in appearance that their shared visage becomes a weapon. Joe Dayton, the railroad magnate, and Jacques Durand, the bandit, are not merely physical twins but ideological counterparts locked in a battle over the soul of the Canadian frontier. The n..."
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