abstract:Two Flags West is a 1950 Western drama set during the American Civil War, directed by Robert Wise and starring Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler, Linda Darnell, and Cornell Wilde. The opening credits contain the following statement:
Apparently acting on orders from the authorities in Jakarta, which this summer refused to allow the province to be renamed West Papua, the police forcibly took down some flags, shooting two people dead in the process.