Robert Aldrich’s Apache Joining The Masters Of Cinema Family
Burt Lancaster stars in Robert Aldrich’s pulse-pounding western
Eureka Entertainment‘s fantastic The Masters Of Cinema range is about to increase in December with Robert Aldrich’s Apache. A visually stunning, character-driven tale of resistance and survival starring Burt Lancaster.
Perhaps best known for his iconic film noir effort Kiss Me Deadly, his unsettling psychological horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and his action-packed war movie The Dirty Dozen, the celebrated American auteur Robert Aldrich was also an accomplished director of Westerns. Amongst his best are Vera Cruz, The Last Sunset and his very first foray into the genre: the Burt Lancaster vehicle Apache.
Following the surrender of Geronimo (Monte Blue) to the United States Cavalry, Massai (Lancaster) becomes the last remaining Apache warrior. After he is captured by the American military and put on a prison train to be forcibly resettled on a reservation in Florida, all seems lost. But Massai manages to escape his captors and sets out to return home, where he hopes to settle down with Nalinle (Jean Peters) and farm the land. But as the frontier shrinks rapidly by the day, returning to his homeland will not be so easy.
One of the earliest Westerns to feature a sympathetic Native American protagonist fighting back against the white settlers who swept across the United States throughout the nineteenth century, Aldrich’s first Western is a landmark film in the history of the genre.
“one of the most exciting and entertaining westerns Hollywood has produced” – MacClean’s Magazine
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
Limited edition of 2,000 copies | Limited edition O-card slipcase featuring original poster artwork | Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on Apache by Western scholar Jenny Barrett and film writer Richard Combs | 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray | Uncompressed original mono audio | Optional English subtitles (SDH) | The Story of Massai – new interview with Austin Fisher, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western | The Last Sunset in Vera Cruz – new interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on Robert Aldrich and the Western | Original theatrical trailer | * All extras subject to change
USA |1954 |U |91 MINS | REGION B | 1.85:1 OAR | WESTERN/ACTION/ADVENTURE | ENGLISH
Apache will be released on Blu-Ray by Eureka Entertainment from 8th December.
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