Apache (film)

Apache is a 1954 American Western film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters and John McIntire. The film was based on the novel Broncho Apache by Paul Wellman, which was published in 1936. It was Aldrich's first color film. Plot 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. But he manages to escape in Oklahoma and heads back to his homeland to win back his woman and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas, though. Cast Burt Lancaster as Massai Jean Peters as Nalinle John McIntire as Al Sieber Charles Buchinsky as Hondo John Dehner as Weddle Paul Guilfoyle as Santos Ian MacDonald as Clagg Walter Sande as Lieutenant Colonel Beck Morris Ankrum as Dawson Monte Blue as Geronimo Paul E. Burns as General Store Proprietor Production In April 1952 Burt Lancaster announced he would star in a film based on the novel, to be produced by himself and Harold Hecht. Lancaster had previously played an American Indian in Jim Thorpe – All-American. Both Lancaster and his love interest, played by Jean Peters, appeared in brownface in the film.