The Broken Star is a 1956 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by John C. Higgins.

The film stars Howard Duff, Lita Baron, Bill Williams, Douglas Fowley, Henry Calvin, Addison Richards, Joel Ashley and John Pickard.

[1][2] A deputy marshall (Smeed) kills a ranch hand and steals a sack of gold.

The marshal arrives with his posse and hunts down Smeed inside the mine, using an alternate entry.

In the closing scene, Gentry (with his new bride, Alvarado), is presented with a new badge by Forrester and congratulated for being appointed to the position of marshal of Arizona's Northern Territory.