Arizona is the background for this beautifully photographed story dealing with a conflict with Apaches in the 1870s. This superb western is one of the earliest to treat the problems of Indians seriously and sympathetically. Later films would lay the blame for the scandalous treatment of
Indians at the door of the Indian Bureau and Washington business interests, but in this film it is renegades and crooked traders who are at fault. Stewart, a young frontiersman who is tired of the mutual massacre of whites and Indians, visits the feared Apache leader, Cochise (Chandler), to
propose a truce. Not only does the meeting succeed, but Stewart falls in love with an Indian ...
Released:
1950
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins