Apache

About 16 minutes into the movie as Massai (Burt Lancaster) is fleeing from the white mob through a hotel corridor you can see an unlit electric 'EXIT' sign visible in the hallway at the top of the shot.

When Massai is moving through Clagg's barn, a mattress is seen being flopped into position on the bottom left of the screen, to be used for Clagg to land on after being hit by Massai.

When Massai exits Santos' wickiup, his shadow is visible on the blue backdrop simulating the sky.

Lancaster, the blue-eyed Massai.

The tire tracks on the mud when Massai came back to the girl.

The corn wasn't corn at all but rush, an aquatic plant.

You can see the difference between them.

The plants have no cob.

Jean Peters - the blue-eyed Apache woman.

Early in the film Massai is seen running through the dirt streets of St.

Louis on wooden sidewalks, with wooden buildings of one or two stories.

In the 1880's, St.

Louis had tall buildings and paved streets, not wooden buildings and dirt streets.

Sobrevalorado western en el que Burt Lancaster sobreactúa caracterizando a un indio apache tan rudo como John Rambo.La cinta muestra la rendición de los indios ante el poder del hombre blanco y sus ejércitos.

Mr B.Lancaster was one of Hollywood's greatest athletes.

I'm always curious about the casting of name actors in Native American roles. You had Chuck Connors as the title character in 1962's "Geronimo" and Paul Newman did a respectable job in 1967's "Hombre".

This is a great Western, or should I say it is just a great film by Robert Aldrich. It shows an opening of terrible cruelty from those who ' conquered ' the people who were there and who were the original people of what we call America.

I like Burt Lancaster playing any role even a blue-eyed Indian. And if Burt can pull that off, so can Jean Peters as another blue-eyed Indian.

A moderately engaging Burt Lancaster vehicle, part produced by its star and an early film from the underappreciated director Robert Aldrich 'Apache' is a 'morality tale' 'problem picture' told from a vaguely humanist position, as befitted Lancaster's own concerns, wrapped up in a character driven romantic-melodrama-weepie, centred on a coupling between Lancaster's "last of the braves" and an equally strong willed and indomitable female Apache played by Jean Peters.'Apache' is usually well constructed and photographed and it delves into the experiences of a fanatically driven warrior refusing to accept the reality of defeat whilst refusing to accept the possibility of personal surrender: to the white man, to the defeatist Apache, or to a good woman's love!

If you can accept stars Burt Lancaster and Jean Peters as blue eyed Apaches, then you may enjoy this movie. It is essentially a showcase for Lancaster's athletic prowess as he leaps over rocks and runs like a deer across the frontier.

APACHE is one of the worst US-made Westerns I have ever watched.It opens with a written intro that it is about Geronimo's successor, Massai (played by Lancaster) but it is immediately clear that it is not faithful to history anymore than blue-eyed Lancaster resembles Massai.

I enjoyed cowboy movies when I was young, but after TV and Hollywood together beat the genre to death with over-exposure and triteness (to be supplanted by space operas, car chases/explosions and, now zombie/vampire adventures), I wasn't sorry to see westerns die their slow death... though an occasional decent one pops up now and agin.