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The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)

The Battle at Apache Pass poster
Directed by
George Sherman
Genre
revisionist Western
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a Western about a U.S. Army cavalry officer and a Chiricahua Apache chief trying to avoid war. It dramatizes a series of misunderstandings and conflicts that lead to a major battle in the Arizona territory.

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What happens

The Battle at Apache Pass is a 1952 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring John Lund, Jeff Chandler and Susan Cabot. The film is a highly fictionalized account combining the events of the Bascom affair of 1861 and the Battle of Apache Pass of 1862. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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