Apache Page #4

Synopsis: Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. Instead, he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.
Genre: Western
Director(s): Robert Aldrich
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PASSED
Year:
1954
91 min
166 Views


Oh, them's my sentiments exactly.

But if just one Apache tries it...

what have we got to lose?

Our scalps, likely.

These young bucks are growin up fast.

Give em a leader like Massai

an watch out.

Massai isn't a chief.

He just sneaked across half of the USA.

They're bound to follow a man like that.

He's the last buck on earth

to make a successful farmer.

Right now he hates everybody,

and when an Apache hates,

he hates high, wide and handsome.

Well, all right.

Back to Florida.

That's your job, Weddle.

I've got a couple of your murderers

eatin' their heads off in my guardhouse.

- Take them along, too.

- The supply train comes next week.

Well, take 'em up to Holbrook.

Put 'em on the mainline.

Do you think you can find Holbrook?

And we don't want

any "clerical errors" this time.

Lace it a littlle?

When.

I was beginning to think

you forgot the word.

Why'd that lousy indian

have to turn up to plague me?

He's sure been a thorn in your side.

And trust Sieber to make the most of it.

All i get's insults.

No expense money outtla this.

I wish he'd try to escape just once more.

You bettler just settlle for that drink.

No buck wearin leg irons

is gonna even try to escape.

Hey.

Hey, what about Jackrabbit Hill?

This team can't haul

four prisoners up that grade.

- Meanin what?

- Meanin they'll have to get out and walk.

- And they can't do that with leg irons on.

- Glory be! They sure can't.

Any fool lndian'd know

that's his chance to run.

Try to run for it.

To make it look right,

we'll have to finish 'em all off.

Mr Weddle, you'll get

your name in the papers yet.

Whoa!

Everybody out!

Now, you lazy bucks,

you're gonna get some exercise.

Come on, move along. Everybody out.

You heard. Move along. Come on.

Sure'll be nice to get to town.

I wonder if... i wonder if Sadie's

still runnin' that place down by the wash.

Sure. Holbrook wouldn't be

Holbrook without Sadie.

Where will we go?

The soldiers will be after us now.

Go where you will. Massai does not walk

the warpath with thieves and murderers.

- Massai saved us. We are his friends.

- I have no friends.

Geronimo and all the true Apaches

are gone. I fight alone.

Go. Go!

You will live, Mr Weddle.

Long enough to tell them who they fight.

- Maybe it's just some hunter.

- A drunken injun playin Fourth of July.

- Take a look, Joe.

- You take a look.

No, Joe, don't shoot or we're goners.

Telegraph lines

have been cut for two days.

I get crazy reports from every

fool rancher who ever saw an indian.

How many bucks are missing?

Santos says none of them are.

Got the scouts out checkin.

Who can be doing this?

Renegades from the mountains?

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James R. Webb

James R. Webb (October 4, 1909 – September 27, 1974) was an American writer. He won an Academy Award in 1963 for How the West Was Won.Webb was born in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Stanford University in 1930. During the 1930s he worked both as a screenwriter and a fiction writer for a number of national magazines, including Collier's Weekly, Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post. Webb was commissioned an army officer in June 1942 and became a personal aide to General Lloyd R. Fredendall who was commander of the II Corps (United States). Webb accompanied Fredendall to England in October 1942 and participated in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942 when the Second Corps captured the city of Oran. The Second Corps then attacked eastward into Tunisia. In February 1943 the German army launched a counterattack at Kasserine Pass which repulsed the Second Corps and nearly broke through the Allied lines. The Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower relieved Fredendall of command in March 1943 and sent him back to the United States where he became deputy commander of the Second United States Army at Memphis, Tennessee. Webb returned to the United States with Fredendall and later served in the European Theater. Webb left the Army after the war and returned to Hollywood, California, where he continued his work as a screenwriter. He died on September 27, 1974, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery. more…

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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  • jayr.99094
    Great script, great movie and great performance by Burt Lancaster. It shows the courage of the Apache people and also shows the reasons their traditional way of life was unsustainable in modern American society. It is an historically honest film with enough romanticism to make all viewers proud of our heritage. 
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