Apache Uprising | |
Director: | R. G. Springsteen |
Producer: | A. C. Lyles |
Screenplay: | Max Lamb Harry Sanford |
Starring: | Rory Calhoun Corinne Calvet John Russell Lon Chaney Jr. Gene Evans Richard Arlen Robert H. Harris |
Music: | Jimmie Haskell |
Cinematography: | W. Wallace Kelley |
Editing: | John F. Schreyer |
Studio: | A.C. Lyles Productions |
Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
Runtime: | 90 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Apache Uprising is a 1965 American Technicolor Western Techniscope film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by Max Lamb and Harry Sanford. The film stars Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Lon Chaney Jr., Gene Evans, Richard Arlen and Robert H. Harris. It also includes the last screen appearance of one-time cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown. The film was released on December 29, 1965, by Paramount Pictures.[1] [2]
The film takes place in Arizona circa 1880s and deals with the stage coach lines trying to run from Texas through Arizona over to Phoenix and points west. The stage coach and passengers are attacked by renegade Apaches. These stage coach hands, passengers, and various AZ outlaws, all of whom are travelling through Indian country, are forced to join forces against the Apaches in order to save their lives and scalps.