Apache Rifles

Apache Rifles is a 1964 Western film in which Audie Murphy plays cavalry officer Jeff Station, charged with bringing in renegade Apaches in the Arizona Territory. Directed by William Witney the film was shot at Bronson Canyon and Red Rock Canyon State Park, California.

Though the territory remains peaceful, the economy of the settlers and miners faces a serious economic threat when the miners are unable to pay the business interests that advance them money for their mines in return for a percentage of the profits.Captain Stantons sympathies gradually change when the miners continue their trespassing. He also is attracted to Dawn Gillis, a courageous missionary teacher who is half Indian herself that teaches in an Indian school. Stanton ruins his military career by beating up a local troublemaker who makes racist taunts to Dawn, then later engages a group of whites who massacre a group of Indians at the school that leads Stanton to open fire on the whites killing several of them. ........

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