Apache Uprising *** (1965, Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Richard Arlen, Lon Chaney Jr, Gene Evans) – Classic Movie Review 13,773

Producer A C Lyles’s sprightly 1965 Technicolor and Techniscope Western film Apache Uprising stars Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Lon Chaney Jr and a welcome cast of old-timers.

Director R G Springsteen’s 1965 American Technicolor and Techniscope Western film Apache Uprising stars Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Lon Chaney Jr, Richard Arlen, Gene Evans, DeForest Kelley, Johnny Mack Brown, George Chandler, Jean Parker, Robert H Harris, Arthur Hunnicutt and Don ‘Red’ Barry.

The screenplay by Harry Sanford and Max Lamb is based on the 1961 novel Way Station by Harry Sanford and Max Steeber.

Producer A C Lyles gathers together another of his welcome casts of old-timers for a low-budget, over-familiar but still sprightly Western about stagecoach passengers – goodies and baddies – who are travelling through Indian country and are attacked by renegade Apaches at a way station in Arizona in the 1880s. The good guys and the bad guys are forced to join forces to try to save their lives.

Main stars Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, and Lon Chaney Jr give stalwart performances, the whole cast is a pleasure to watch, and W Wallace Kelley’s Technicolor and Techniscope photography is a joy.

It is Jean Parker’s last movie after a nine-year gap and also includes the last screen appearance of one-time cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown.

The film was released on December 29, 1965, by Paramount Pictures.

The cast are Rory Calhoun as Jim Walker, Corinne Calvet as Janice MacKenzie, John Russell as Vance Bucknerm, Lon Chaney Jr as Charlie Russell, Gene Evans as Jess Cooney, Richard Arlen as Captain Gannon, Robert H Harris as Hoyt Taylor, Arthur Hunnicutt as Bill Gibson, DeForest Kelley as Toby Jack Saunders, George Chandler as Jace Asher, Jean Parker as Mrs. Hawks, Johnny Mack Brown as Sheriff Ben Hall, Don ‘Red’ Barry as Henry Belden, Abel Fernandez as Young Apache Chief, Robert Carricart as Chico Lopez, Paul Daniel as Tonto Chief Antone, Regis Parton as Hank, Roy Jenson as Sgt Hogan, Rodd Redwing as Archie Whitewater, Dan White as Townsman Laughing at Sheriff, Ben Stanton as Townsman Joe Rudy Sooter as Townsman.

Apache Uprising is directed by R G Springsteen , runs 90 minutes, is made by A C Lyles Productions, is released by Paramount Pictures, is written by Harry Sanford and Max Lamb, based on the novel Way Station by Harry Sanford and Max Steeber, is shot in Technicolor and Techniscope by W Wallace Kelley, is produced by A C Lyles, and is scored by Jimmie Haskell.

Corinne Calvet (April 30, 1925 – June 23, 2001), born Corinne Dibos, was a French actress who appeared mostly in mediocre American films. In 1952, Calvet sued Zsa Zsa Gabor for $1 million, accusing her of slander after Gabor said Calvet was not really French, but was ‘a cockney English girl who couldn’t even speak French a few years ago.’

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