Captain Apache (1971)
Country: GB/SP
Technical: col/scope 89m
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman
Synopsis:
A yankee captain of Apache blood investigates the death of the Indian commissioner, whose dying words were 'April Morning'. In so doing he has to untangle a web of interested parties, from corrupt business interests to renegade Mexican generals, not to mention a saloon girl who seems to be sleeping with them all.
Review:
Ostensibly about racism against the Indian (Van Cleef's character is repeatedly termed 'Red ass'), the plot hinges on the attempted triggering of an Indian war for the planned assassination of President Grant. However, the script is so confused and the direction inept, with slapstick violence, that one cannot begin to take it seriously. Van Cleef struts about in an absurd brown wig, doubtless proud to be holding his own against a cast of American actors for a change, and even gets to do a couple of songs, the declaimed 'ballad of Captain Apache' and a closing number he somewhat flatly attempts to sing. Still, at 46 he looks in pretty good shape in a loin cloth!
Country: GB/SP
Technical: col/scope 89m
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman
Synopsis:
A yankee captain of Apache blood investigates the death of the Indian commissioner, whose dying words were 'April Morning'. In so doing he has to untangle a web of interested parties, from corrupt business interests to renegade Mexican generals, not to mention a saloon girl who seems to be sleeping with them all.
Review:
Ostensibly about racism against the Indian (Van Cleef's character is repeatedly termed 'Red ass'), the plot hinges on the attempted triggering of an Indian war for the planned assassination of President Grant. However, the script is so confused and the direction inept, with slapstick violence, that one cannot begin to take it seriously. Van Cleef struts about in an absurd brown wig, doubtless proud to be holding his own against a cast of American actors for a change, and even gets to do a couple of songs, the declaimed 'ballad of Captain Apache' and a closing number he somewhat flatly attempts to sing. Still, at 46 he looks in pretty good shape in a loin cloth!
Country: GB/SP
Technical: col/scope 89m
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman
Synopsis:
A yankee captain of Apache blood investigates the death of the Indian commissioner, whose dying words were 'April Morning'. In so doing he has to untangle a web of interested parties, from corrupt business interests to renegade Mexican generals, not to mention a saloon girl who seems to be sleeping with them all.
Review:
Ostensibly about racism against the Indian (Van Cleef's character is repeatedly termed 'Red ass'), the plot hinges on the attempted triggering of an Indian war for the planned assassination of President Grant. However, the script is so confused and the direction inept, with slapstick violence, that one cannot begin to take it seriously. Van Cleef struts about in an absurd brown wig, doubtless proud to be holding his own against a cast of American actors for a change, and even gets to do a couple of songs, the declaimed 'ballad of Captain Apache' and a closing number he somewhat flatly attempts to sing. Still, at 46 he looks in pretty good shape in a loin cloth!