Carroll Baker, Charles Stalmaker, Charlie Bravo, Elisa Montés, Faith Clift ...( see more  see more... ) , Lee Van Cleef , Percy Herbert , Stuart Whitman , Tony Vogel

Assigned by the Union Army to investigate the Indian commissioner's death, a Native American known as Captain Apache (Lee Van Cleef) uncovers a sinister assassination plot in this vintage Spanish-made...( read more  read more... ) Western. Anyone who might have information on the man's death is killed before they can divulge their secrets, forcing Captain Apache into an alliance with an untrustworthy land owner. Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman and Elisa Montes co-star.

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Directed by: Alexander Singer

Release Date: October 27, 1971

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DVD Release Date: July 19, 2005

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  • February 3, 2008
    A quirky but dire western starring Lee Van Cleef as a Native American officer in the Union Army, determined to make sense of a dying man's cryptic last words: "April morning". If you're thinking this sounds like the western equivalent of "Citizen Kane" you're way off the mark, an...( read more)d I'd be surprised if you still care what the riddle means by the time Van Cleef finds out. The choppy editing ensures that the film makes no narrative sense whatsoever, and it is badly dated by an inappropriately funky soundtrack and a trippy hallucination scene. Van Cleef actually sings the two songs which play over the credits, both of which are dreadful. Unfortunately, "Captain Apache" isn't quite camp enough to be enjoyed for its awfulness, but the sight of Lee Van Cleef in a loin-cloth, desperately sucking his stomach in, ought to raise a smile. I think this was an American/Spanish co-production, but stylistically it's a Spaghetti rip-off.
  • December 30, 2009
    Captain Apache (1971)

    Wow! This is another nail in the coffin of the Spaghetti Western from the early 70s. This movie, based on S.E. Whitman's (is that Stuart Whitman's?) novel, has Lee Van Cleef singing the theme songs, "Captain Apache" and "April Morning". Filmed in Spain w...( read more)ith an international cast.

    The director, Alexander Singer, probably should have stuck to doing TV series, because he did a terrible job making this movie. It's very poorly made and edited. The movie that I saw was full screen from a wide screen original, so people's faces tend to run off the edge of the scenery.

    The movie starts out really, really bad and, with time, becomes curiously watch-able. Captain Apache (Lee Van Cleef) is a native American Army officer, investigating the murder of an Indian Affairs Commissioner. What's curious is that the Commisioner's dying last words were april morning, and somehow that's so important that everyone who seems to know what april morning means is killed before they're able to tell the Captain.

    Somehow this is all tied together with the local sheriff's deputies, a gun runner named Griffin (Stuart Whitman), some of his men (of dubious loyalties), as well as some Mexican calvary, and some beautiful young ladies, Maude (Carroll Baker) and Rosita (Elisa Montés).

    Somehow, I think that this movie could have been done so much better than it was, but Lee Van Cleef makes it reasonably watch-able.
  • August 13, 2007
    They call him Cap-tain A-pach-e. Hard to watch most of the time, but occasionally lamely funny. The early love scene between Van Cleef and Baker is probably the best part.

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