A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.
Robert Griffin
- Sam Maddock
- (as Robert E. Griffin)
Victor Adamson
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Chris Willow Bird
- Apache Brave
- (uncredited)
Buck Bucko
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Bill Coontz
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
John Crawford
- Capt. Bill Lawson
- (uncredited)
Art Felix
- Comanche Brave
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaProducer Sam Katzman refused to shave the Indians heads, because it would take a too long time for hair to grow again for other films. So he decided that the actors would wear swimming caps. But Columbia mogul Harry Cohn was very angry because of this trick and asked why Indians fighters wore bathing caps.
- GoofsThe film states that there were 40,000 Apache warriors at war in Arizona, when in fact there were never anywhere near 40,000 Apaches in the entire state and never more than several hundred fighting the white settlers and the US Army at any one time.
- Quotes
Major Tom Burke: It is a custom of our people, the handshake. It means we each give our word to what has been said.
- ConnectionsReferenced in They Came from Beyond - Sam Katzman at Columbia (2023)
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Positively Cleopatra like
Sam Katzman formerly of Monogram Studios probably could not believe the budget he had with Columbia Pictures for Conquest Of Cochise. Color and location shooting. I can hear him saying I know I'm not at Monogram any more.
This story about Cochise takes place as the USA has formally taken over the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the last bit of continental USA that we acquired. The Mexicans sold it to us for a tidy sum, it was mostly desert and its largest city was a desert settlement that was called Tucson. But it did sit across a possible southern continental railway route and we bought it for that purpose.
Now to enforce some law there because Cochise and his Chiracahua Apaches rule most of that bit of turf with Comanches occasionally raiding in there as well. That's what Major Robert Stack of the US Cavalry is sent there to do, make a treaty. Of course there are forces who don't want a treaty made.
Nevertheless Stack goes to negotiate with Cochise who is played most impressively by John Hodiak.
Broken Arrow which is set post Civil War has a lot of similarities and an actor who got great acclaim for playing Cochise. Jeff Chandler got an Oscar nomination for his performance. Broken Arrow got a far bigger budget than Conquest Of Cochise. Still what Hodiak did should have gotten more acclaim.
Conquest Of Cochise was not a bad film and for a Sam Katzman production its positively Cleopatra like.
This story about Cochise takes place as the USA has formally taken over the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the last bit of continental USA that we acquired. The Mexicans sold it to us for a tidy sum, it was mostly desert and its largest city was a desert settlement that was called Tucson. But it did sit across a possible southern continental railway route and we bought it for that purpose.
Now to enforce some law there because Cochise and his Chiracahua Apaches rule most of that bit of turf with Comanches occasionally raiding in there as well. That's what Major Robert Stack of the US Cavalry is sent there to do, make a treaty. Of course there are forces who don't want a treaty made.
Nevertheless Stack goes to negotiate with Cochise who is played most impressively by John Hodiak.
Broken Arrow which is set post Civil War has a lot of similarities and an actor who got great acclaim for playing Cochise. Jeff Chandler got an Oscar nomination for his performance. Broken Arrow got a far bigger budget than Conquest Of Cochise. Still what Hodiak did should have gotten more acclaim.
Conquest Of Cochise was not a bad film and for a Sam Katzman production its positively Cleopatra like.
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- Jun 24, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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