Apache
by Robert Aldrich
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bronson, Jean Peters, John Dehner, John McIntireDirector: Robert Aldrich
Producer: Burt Lancaster
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
Editor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Producer: Harold Hecht
Writer: James R. Webb
Writer: Paul Wellman
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Apache
Movie Review: different point of view . . .
Summary: 3 Stars
Robert Aldrich's Apache (1954) features Burt Lancaster as Massai, supposedly an actual Apache brave who escapes capture by the white man and continues to fight a personal battle. Historical accuracy is open to question, but the athletic Lancaster, has ample opportunities to display his physical prowess, running, jumping, diving, and fighting anyone that gets in his way.
After being defeated by the US Calvary, Apache braves located in what is now the state of New Mexico, are placed on a train bound for Florida. Somewhere near St. Louis, Massai escapes and heads back to his tribal lands. On the long journey back, he encounters a member of the Cherokee tribe living as a farmer, who gives him some seed corn, and advice about farming and living in peace with the white man.
Returning to his defeated tribe, Massai is betrayed by his own people, but manages to turn the tables on his captors again. He takes his revenge on the Calvary, and abducts Nalinle (Jean Peters) the Chief's daughter, who he mistakenly believes has betrayed him. Massai brutally mistreats her, but does not break Nalinle's spirit, which is probably even stronger than his own. Eventually, the two marry, and are expecting a child. After a life of violence, impending fatherhood causes Massai to give farming corn a try. Still pursued by the army, there is one last battle. Although the real Massai apparently perished in a cornfield, United Artists was apparently concerned that the death of Lancaster's character would negatively affect the film's profitability, so the film ends in a most unconvincing fashion. Although with a Hollywood perspective, Apache is an interesting tale, one of the first sympathetic to the native Indian point of view. Aldrich and Lancaster would team up again in another western, Ulzana's Raid in 1972.
Apache was physically demanding for Burt Lancaster, and also for Jean Peters, who endured numerous hardships in the production. She apparently did not have the warmest of feelings for her co-star, and would only do a couple more films in the 50's, before marrying Howard Hughes in 1957, and then retiring from the business. Peters would later resume acting, after divorcing Hughes in the 70's.
Summary of Apache
Following the surrender of geronimo massai the last apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a florida reservation.. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/12/2009 Starring: Burt Lancaster Charles Bronson Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Robert AldrichBurt Lancaster was cock of the walk in 1954. The Lancaster-starred From Here to Eternity had just swept the Oscars?, his personal production company Hecht-Lancaster could do no wrong, and he had marquee magic in two back-to-back Westerns directed by Robert Aldrich, Vera Cruz and this one. There are moments in his performance as Massai, the Apache warrior who wouldn't surrender with Geronimo, that seem choreographed to express the actor's exultation. Massai has hard going all the way--starting with having to recross half the continent on foot after escaping from a prison train bound for Florida--but Lancaster the ex-circus athlete who insisted on doing his own stunts fairly sings with the ecstasy of movement as he scampers over rocks, rolls unscathed between the wheels of racing wagons, and generally makes the screen look like his private gym.
Apache wasn't the first Western to sympathize with Native Americans done wrong, but it's among the liveliest--although, ironically, it was destined to be outshone in power and complexity by Aldrich and Lancaster's masterpiece Ulzana's Raid nearly two decades later. Typically of its time, Apache features non-Indians in all the Indian roles, including Jean Peters as Massai's beloved Nalinle and Charles Buchinsky (later Bronson) as her other suitor, Hondo, one of the tribesmen who has donned U.S. Cavalry blue. John McIntire contributes his crusty moral authority as Al Sieber, the real-life scout who helped defeat Geronimo and then Massai, and respected both. John Dehner is, as usual, a real bastard. --Richard T. Jameson
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