Stagecoach (1939), The Wild Bunch (1969), My Darling Clementine (1946), Predator (1987), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), Love Me Tonight (1932), Fort Apache (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Apache Indian movies.
Storyline: Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naiveté and hidden prejudice.—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: mercy killing, violence, last stand, main character shot, main character dies, opening action scene, shooting a woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Accused of murdering three of Sheriff Bull Harper's brothers, the Comanche-reared white man, "Comanche" Todd, is captured and dragged to trial. Cautiously, as the two men ride across hostile Apache territory, they will join Colonel Normand's wagon train of women and children, only to be ambushed and massacred by the Indians whose families were slaughtered by the whites. Now, the few survivors have no other choice but to trust their dubious protector, Todd, as hundreds of vengeful Apaches track them down, thirsting for blood. Can they make it out alive?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: cowboys and indians, western hero, hero, courtroom, soldier, explosion, rabbit ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful nature of his buddy's business and the way the homesteaders are being used, the two men draw apart to become sworn enemies.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: new mexico, texas, stampede, shot to death, dying words, woman slaps a man, face slap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: character name in title, jail, jail break, texan, indian attack, pet dog, man's best friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: apache, arizona territory, arizona, gunshot, opening action scene, winchester rifle, repeating rifle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The town constable, Bob Valdez, is forced to kill someone accused by Frank Tanner of being a murderer. Valdez asks Tanner for monetary help for the man's wife, but he is ridiculed and almost killed by Tanner's henchmen. Valdez recovers and summons up his days in the U.S. Cavalry in order to fight them. Valdez wounds one of the henchmen and sends him back to Tanner with the message, "Valdez is coming."—Robbie Burns <burnodo@usit.net>
Plot Keywords: arizona desert, arizona, arizona territory, fog, ambush, honor, chase ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy?
Plot Keywords: horseback riding, trust, telescope, unfaithfulness, train, applause, tooth knocked out ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.—scgary66
Plot Keywords: reference to napoleon bonaparte, one armed man, massacre, mayor, mirror, montage, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Sheriff goes into Mexico in search of a man wanted back in the States. Finding him, he starts back. But it's a long way back, he has a reluctant captive, and there are unfriendly Indians along the way. The Sheriff admits his life has been a failure but this mission he plans to accomplish.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, desert, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, farm, farmhouse, knife, drunkenness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three Americans are headed by ship around the cape to the California gold fields when they are put ashore for several weeks in a sleepy little Mexican village. While there, they are offered the job of following a lady deep into the Indian-infested mountains of Mexico to rescue the lady's husband trapped by a cave-in at their gold mine. For the job they are promised $2000 each. While each contemplates their own chances for getting the lady and/or the gold mine, if they can survive to enjoy it.—Ronnie L. Hyde
Plot Keywords: melodrama, orchestral music score, symphonic music score, cowboy, violence, shootout, gunfight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a band of Indians kill a group of soldiers, Sergeant Hook captures them and their leader Nanches. Among the prisoners is Nanches' son and the boy's white mother captured by them nine years earlier. Hook's assignment is to escort the mother and son to the woman's husband. Traveling by stagecoach they learn that Nanches has escaped and it's not long before he and his warriors show up intent on reclaiming the boy.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: arizona, american indian, biracial child, husband wife relationship, missing wife, native american, native american chief ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Carter, a Civil War veteran, who in 1868 was trying to live a normal life, is "asked" by the Army to join, but he refuses so he is locked up. He escapes, and is pursued. Eventually they run into some Indians, and there's a gunfight. Carter seeks refuge in a cave. While there, he encounters someone who is holding some kind of medallion. When Carter touches it, he finds himself in a place where he can leap incredible heights, among other things. He later encounters beings he has never seen before. He meets a woman who helps him to discover that he is on Mars, and he learns there's some kind of unrest going on.
Plot Keywords: arizona desert, virginia, gladiator, american civil war, arizona territory, alien, princess ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boys want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.—Christopher D. Ryan <cryan@direct.ca>
Plot Keywords: bank robbery, cigar smoking, shot to death, blood, cowboy hat, cowboy boots, cowboy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, based on book, revenge, 1870s, arizona, u.s. cavalry, apache indian ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her.—dinky-4 of Minneapolis
Plot Keywords: homoerotic, house on fire, friendship, bare chested male, removing a bullet, falling in love, uncle nephew relationship ...
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