DOG BYTES


We know it looks Photoshopped, but this is the real Lee Van Cleef in CAPTAIN APACHE.


Deranged Gang War in Amityville Park


CAPTAIN APACHE


1971, Kino Lorber, 89m 33s, $22.95 BD-A, $17.95 DVD-1 By Lloyd Haynes


One of several British-financed westerns to emerge in the late 1960s/early 1970s (SHALAKO, HANNIE CAULDER, THE MAN FROM NOWHERE), this is also one of only a handful of features directed by New York-born Alex- ander Singer, whose most impor- tant work would be for television, where he contributed to such shows as THE FUGITIVE, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. and MISSION: IM- POSSIBLE. A toupéed Lee Van Cleef stars as the titular US Army captain and Native American, as- signed to investigate the murder of a government commissioner on the Mesa Indian Reservation, whose dying breath contains the cryptic words “April morning.” There’s a possible link to Griffin (Stuart Whitman), a dapper gun- runner and land baron who has been supplying arms across the border. Apache tangles not only with Griffin but with his fellow of- ficers, Mexicans, even his own people; everyone it seems is pre- pared to obstruct his mission, and most who do are met with a quick bullet.


In the film’s most bizarre se- quence, Apache is held prisoner in a ruined church by a pair of thuggish gunmen (one of whom is BLACKSNAKE’s Percy Herbert) and administered a drug which sends him into convulsions. Apache hallucinates the ghost of the dead commissioner, who


 


 


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