Name: Apache War Smoke
Genre: Western
Released: 1952-09-25
Duration: 1 h 7 min

Apache War Smoke (1952)

Directed by Harold F. Kress

Genres - Western | Release Date - Sep 25, 1952 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 67 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR

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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Apache War Smoke was a remake of Apache Trail (42); both films were based on a story by Ernest Haycox. Haycox had previously written Stage to Lordsburg, a western yarn filmed by John Ford as Stagecoach (39). Apache War Smoke adheres to the Stagecoach formula by trapping several strangers in a dangerous situation, in this instance an incipient Apache uprising. Included in the group are the passengers of a stagecoach, and the gang of bandits who've just held up the coach; there's also a notorious Indian hater in the bunch. Apache War Smoke spins its yarn in a brisk 67 minutes, with only a few slow stretches here and there.