Geronimo

1962

1 hr. 41 min.

Western

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80%

5 Reviews

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Apache leader Geronimo (Chuck Connors) tires of battling American and Mexican troops, and decides to surrender his meager tribe. However, life on the San Carlos reservation is difficult, and the Apaches do not adjust well to becoming farmers. Geronimo is befriended by a schoolteacher (Kamala Devi), who tries to broaden his horizons, but corruption on the reservation forces him to take his band and head for the mountains, where the Apaches wage a doomed war against the white man.

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I enjoyed the movie. It's a little jarring to see the Apaches speaking perfect English, even to each other. But, it's a good story and Chuck Connors is excellent. The ending isn't per the history books, but I think I like this ending better.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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AJ S

Hella good! Dont listen to these self righteous "woke" people... they like the smell of their own farts. Its seriously good and worth watching.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/11/21

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another example of hollywood picking a white man to play native american

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Chuck Conners cuts a good Geronimo, and the story, whilst it does concentrate on pleasing the audience, is sympathetic to the Apache leader and his people.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Some indians just don't give up. Realistic if hyped portrayl of American history's most stubborn indian chief. Chuck Connors (of The Rifleman tv series) stars as the Apache leader in this 1883 story that has the brave Geronimo steadfastly holding his ground against U.S. and Mexican military forces. This one comes off pretty much as most other Westerns of the era. Of course, the Moses for the indians is portrayed as Geronimo, an Apache who surrenders only to escape and fight again. Played very well by Chuck Conners of Rifleman fame, the calvary after him are the current day Egyptians chasing the Israelites from Egypt. Ross Martin, Geronimos faithful Apache chief, plays a round eyed articulate indian. Martin rose to greater fame as the fellow agent of Robert Conrad in tv's popular US Treasury agent spy series The Wild, Wild, West in the sixties. Chuck Conners carries this film with his strength of character, physical dominance (he was 7 feet tall) and intense acting abilty. The Mexican government and U.S. calvery join forces to hunt down Geronimo's anti-socialites. Very similar experience to the frustration today's governments have hunting down Bin Laden... only this was a hundred twenty years ago. Some guys just don't know the word quit, be it pride, arrogance or in Geronimo's case... dignity. Cast Chuck Connors (of tv's western The Rifleman as Lucas McCain) Kamala Devi Pat Conway Ross Martin (later of tv's Wild, Wild, West as Artemus) Denver Pyle (veteran movie and tv actor) Adam West (later lead actor of tv's Batman series) Crew Producer: Arthur Gardner Screenplay: Pat Fielder Composer: Hugo Friedhofer Director: Arnold Laven Cinematographer: Alex Phillips

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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It was a chore to sit through... because it's filmed in old fashioned'o'vision perhaps. There was a baby at the end :) & it all ended peacefully!? Oh I didn't know that. Worth watching.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Geronimo

Kamala Devi

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The revisionist Western yarn fails to tell us the historical Geronimo story, which is far more interesting than this made up one.

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Synopsis

Apache leader Geronimo (Chuck Connors) tires of battling American and Mexican troops, and decides to surrender his meager tribe. However, life on the San Carlos reservation is difficult, and the Apaches do not adjust well to becoming farmers. Geronimo is befriended by a schoolteacher (Kamala Devi), who tries to broaden his horizons, but corruption on the reservation forces him to take his band and head for the mountains, where the Apaches wage a doomed war against the white man.

Director: Arnold Laven
Screenwriter: Pat Fielder
Production Co: Levy-Gardner-Laven
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008

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