a5c7b9f00b An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down. In 1880s Arizona, General Crook and his troops are trying to subdue the last tribe of Apache led by Geronimo. Possibly because The Rifleman series that Levy-Gardner-Laven produced on television was shot in black and white was the reason that no one apparently noticed that Chuck Connors had blue eyes. In any event when they produced this B film about the last great Indian warrior chief Geronimo since they had Chuck Connors under contract for The Rifleman they figured to get him dirt cheap for this film. I&#39;m sure Connors was also looking towards a big screen careerwell.<br/><br/>If you can get over how ridiculous Connors looksa blue eyed Indian, the film Geronimo is not a bad one given the fact it is a B film. It takes the Indian point of view dispassionately, just letting facts speak for themselves.<br/><br/>Geronimo in fact had surrendered and was sent to live on the San Carlos Reservation, but ill treatment by corrupt politicians and self righteous do-goodersexemplified by John Anderson in this film, sent Geronimo packing along with some of his best warriors. They bedeviled the Arizona territory and the Mexican authorities for several years.<br/><br/>Geronimo took one thing he liked from San Carlos along with him, beautiful Indian maid Kamala Devi. Ironically enough Kamala Devi is an actual Indian Indian, but she&#39;s drop dead gorgeous in any culture. Chuck Connors thought so too because he left his first wife for her during the making of Geronimo.<br/><br/>With certain reservations, no pun intended, Geronimo is not a bad telling of the tale of the last campaign against the American Indians. But I can&#39;t believe that the team of Levy-Gardner-Laven couldn&#39;t afford some contact lenses for Chuck Connors in the budget. ***SPOILERS*** Far better the expected film about Apache Indian warrior Geronimo,Chuck Connors, who&#39;s fight against the white man spilled over the US Mexican border and caused havoc in both countries for over 30 years. With no more then a few hundred men Geronimo fought a drawn out gorilla war that cost the lives of thousand of both Mexican and US soldiers and settlerswellhundreds of his own men. It&#39;s when Geronimo finally agreed to surrender to the US Government in Arizona Territory in 1883 that the film begins. And it&#39;s then that Geronimo learns what a bunch of back stabbing and crooked shysters he was actually dealing with.<br/><br/>With the Arizona Territorial US Government headed by the aptly named General George A Crook, Larry Dobkin, breaking a promise with Geronimo to keep his people on the land that they were given by the Great White Father in Washington D.C. Crook and his partner in crime the half baked and phony Christian missionary Jeremah Burn, John Anderson, ended up selling the Indian land away, all 50,000 acres, to a sleazy land developer Kincaide,Joe Higgins. That had the outraged and feeling suckered, in signing a peace treaty with the white man, Geronimo go on the warpath and take his band of Apache warriors along with him.<br/><br/>The film has Geronimo conduct a number of hit and run guerrilla attacks on both US and Mexican troops much like the Viet Cong did in Vienam at the time the movie, in 1962, was being filmed. Highly successful the attacks cause concern in both Washington and Mexico City with the Apaches trying downmuch10,000 US &amp; Mexican troops in trying to defeat them. It&#39;s during that time,1883-1886,that Geronimo married pretty Indian squaw Teela played by Kamala Devi the soon to be Mrs. Chuck Connors and the only full blooded Indian, born in Bombay India in 1934, in the entire cast. It&#39;s Teela who&#39;s sick and tired of her hubby&#39;s obsession with waging war against the white man which almost caused her to suffer a miscarriage. Teela also wants her soon be be born son Geronimo Jr not to grow up in a world of bloodshed and violence that his pop Geronimo Sr is so accustomed to.<br/><br/>It&#39;s also during that period in his life that Geronimo&#39;s best friend and second in command Mangus,Ross Martin,gets himself killed in action leaving both his wife and young son widowed and orphaned. Finally seeing the light after losing almost 90% of his man from hunger disease and starvation,wellkilled in combat, Geronimo signed a peace treaty with the white man or US Government andthe film ends he together with Teela Geronimo Jr and what was left of the Apache tribe that he was the leader of lived happily ever after.<br/><br/>P.S In truth Geronimo didn&#39;t live happily ever after but was screwed again by the hated white man and not allowed to returned to his beloved and ancestral homeland in the Arizona Territory of the USA. Geronimo instead ended up making a meager living becoming a side show curiosity in Wild West Shows with people paying to photograph or be photographed with the once brave and fearless Apache warrior. Living out his last days at the US Army base at Fort Sill Oklahoma Geronimo passed away on in the dead of winter on February 17, 1909 at the age of 79 from pneumonia. His last words were reported to have been said to his nephew saying that the biggest mistake he ever made was surrendering and not fighting to the death against the white man.
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