It was only in his third film, "Apache," that Aldrich's assured grasp of genre and liberal sensibilities came to the fore in a sympathetic but never maudlin portrait of an Indian alienated from both white America and his own kind...
Based upon the Novel "Bronco Apache" by Paul I. Wellman, the film relates the story of the last Apache warrior Massai following Geronimo's surrender...
Declined to live on Government reservations, a real-brave Massai became a legend for waging a one-man war against the encroaching U.S. Army in the 1880s...
Lancaster stars as the menacing, stormy, inflamed warrior whose spirit is as high as the white snowy peak of his mountain... Massai came back from far away weary from a journey that no warrior had ever made before... He seems like a dying wolf biting at its own wounds... For him there is no place in his life for love... Love is for men who can walk without looking behind... For men who can live summer and winter in the same place... Every man, every Indian is his enemy...
Jean Peters looked radiant as the blue-eyes Nalinle who really knows there had never been a chief like Massai...
John McIntire combed the whole country searching for Massai... For him it takes two to call off a war... Massai must be in those mountains somewhere...
For Bronson, "Apache" marked the first of his numerous excursions into Indian territory...
Aldrich tried to offer an inspiring message, and his film was exciting filled with colorful action scenes, and a surprising ending...
Based upon the Novel "Bronco Apache" by Paul I. Wellman, the film relates the story of the last Apache warrior Massai following Geronimo's surrender...
Declined to live on Government reservations, a real-brave Massai became a legend for waging a one-man war against the encroaching U.S. Army in the 1880s...
Lancaster stars as the menacing, stormy, inflamed warrior whose spirit is as high as the white snowy peak of his mountain... Massai came back from far away weary from a journey that no warrior had ever made before... He seems like a dying wolf biting at its own wounds... For him there is no place in his life for love... Love is for men who can walk without looking behind... For men who can live summer and winter in the same place... Every man, every Indian is his enemy...
Jean Peters looked radiant as the blue-eyes Nalinle who really knows there had never been a chief like Massai...
John McIntire combed the whole country searching for Massai... For him it takes two to call off a war... Massai must be in those mountains somewhere...
For Bronson, "Apache" marked the first of his numerous excursions into Indian territory...
Aldrich tried to offer an inspiring message, and his film was exciting filled with colorful action scenes, and a surprising ending...