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Overview
An informal trilogy of films in which Jeff Chandler portrays Cochise, an Apache leader during the 19th century.
- Number of Movies: 3
- Revenue: $3,600,000
Featured Cast
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Tom Jeffords
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Taza
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Maj. Jim Colton
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Cochise
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Oona
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Joe Bent (as Palmer Lee), Captain Burnett
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Sonseeahray
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Nono
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Naiche
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Gen. Oliver Howard
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Neil Baylor
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Ben Slade
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Grey Eagle
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Mary Keerney
Featured Crew
July 21, 1950
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
May 9, 1952
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise's band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.
February 18, 1954
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...