_**Shoestring Western remake with Audi Murphy**_

In the Arizona Territory, 1879, a captain (Audi Murphy) is assigned to a cavalry unit with the task of bringing in a band of Mescalero Apaches who have left the Reservation. Joseph Vitale and Michael Dante play the chief and his son respectively while L.Q. Jones and Ken Lynch appear as greedy miners.

“Apache Uprising” (1964) is a ‘B’ Western remake of “Indian Uprising” (1952). It liberally uses stock footage from it and the contrast with the new footage is too glaring. If you can look past that and the obvious Caucasians playing Apaches, this is a decent Audie Murphy ‘B’ Western with enough human interest to keep your attention. Unfortunately the sudden change-of-mind of a certain character at the end is unconvincing and reflects bad writing.

Dark-haired Linda Lawson has a unique beauty as a missionary sympathetic to the Apaches.

The film runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot in Bronson Canyon and Red Rock Canyon State Park in California.

GRADE: C