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Captain Apache (1971)

Captain Apache poster
Directed by
Alexander Singer
Genre
Western film
Country
United Kingdom, Spain
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
PG
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Native American army captain investigates a murder that leads him into a web of corruption and violence. He must navigate a harsh frontier landscape and a cast of dangerous characters.

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What happens

Captain Apache is a 1971 Spanish-British acid Western film directed by Alexander Singer and starring Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, and Stuart Whitman. It was written and produced by Milton Sperling and Philip Yordan. The film was based on the 1965 novel Captain Apache by Sidney Edgerton Whitman, a prolific writer of Western fiction. The vocals of the opening and credits song were written by Dolores Claman and performed by Van Cleef. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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