Apache (film)

Apache is a 1954 American Western film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters and John McIntire.

Following the surrender of the great leader Geronimo, Massai — the last Apache warrior — is captured and sent on a prison train to a reservation in Florida.

In April 1952 Burt Lancaster announced he would star in a film based on the novel, to be produced by himself and Harold Hecht.

[9] Aldrich says this was on the back of his second feature as director, World for Ransom, along with the fact that he had previously worked for Hecht-Lancaster on other movies as an assistant and had tried to buy the original novel himself.

"[19] Retrospective reviews have praised the film for its "acceptance of the alien nature of the Apache"[20] and "more than the standard revisionist bromides.