Apache Rifles

A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.

Cast

Audie Murphy

as Capt. Jeff Stanton

Michael Dante

as Red Hawk

Linda Lawson

as Dawn Gillis

L.Q. Jones

as Mike Greer

Ken Lynch

as Hodges

Joseph Vitale

as Victorio (as Joseph A. Vitale)

Robert Brubaker

as Sgt. Cobb

Eugene Iglesias

as Cpl. Ramirez

J. Pat O'Malley

as Capt. Thatcher

John Archer

as Col. Nathan Perry

Reviews

John Chard

Caught in the Crossfire of Passions and Greed! Apache Rifles is directed by William Witney and adapted to screenplay by Charles B. Smith from a story written by Kenneth Gamet and Richard Schayer. It stars Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L.Q. Jones, Ken Lynch, Joseph Vitale and Robert B...

Wuchak

_**Shoestring Western remake with Audi Murphy**_ In the Arizona Territory, 1879, a captain (Audi Murphy) is assigned to a cavalry unit with the task of bringing in a band of Mescalero Apaches who have left the Reservation. Joseph Vitale and Michael Dante play the chief and his son respectively wh...

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