I Killed Geronimo (1950)

Directed by

John Hoffman

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 02m

Rated

NR

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A white man claims to have killed the Apache leader Geronimo. The film follows his story, though the real Geronimo died of illness years later.

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What happens

I Killed Geronimo is a 1950 American Western directed by John Hoffman and starring James Ellison, Virginia Herrick and Chief Thundercloud in the role of the Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo. It is based on the fictional murder of Geronimo, who in reality died of pneumonia at the age of 79 after a fall from his horse in February 1909 while still a prisoner of the United States at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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