Portrayal of Indians Īlthough many westerns of the pre-World War II period portrayed American Indians as hostile to the European settlers, others did show Indians in a positive light. For the character of Cochise, director Daves eliminated the traditional style of broken English and replaced it with conventional English so that whites and Indians would sound alike. (The story of Cochise actually occurred in what is now the Dragoon Mountains in the Douglas Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in southeastern Arizona.) The studio attempted to portray Apache customs in the film, like the Social Dance and the Girl's Sunrise Ceremony (the girl's puberty rite). The studio employed nearly 240 Indians from Arizona's Fort Apache Indian Reservation many location scenes were shot in Sedona, Arizona.
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The movie was based on the 558-page novel Blood Brother (1947) by Elliott Arnold, which told the story of the peace agreement between the Apache leader Cochise and the U.S. Canadian Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels portrayed Geronimo. Debra Paget was only 15 years old when she played the love interest to 42-year-old James Stewart. Apaches from the Whiteriver agency on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation played themselves. It was primarily shot on location in northern Arizona, approximately 30 miles south of Flagstaff.
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He was working in several radio series at the time, Michael Shayne and Our Miss Brooks, and had to be written out of them for several weeks. Jeff Chandler was cast in May 1949 on the basis of his performance in Sword in the Desert. Before we found Chandler we were even considering Ezio Pinza." Producer Julius Blaustein recalled, "We had a terrible time locating an actor with the proper voice and stature to play Cochise. Jeffords rides off with the belief that "the death of Sonseeahray had put a seal upon the peace, and from that day on wherever I went, in the cities, among the Apaches and in the mountains, I always remembered, my wife was with me.” Cochise forbids Jeffords to retaliate, saying that the ambush was not done by the military and that Geronimo broke the peace no less than Slade and his men, and that peace must be maintained.
Jeffords is badly wounded and Sonseeahray is killed but Cochise kills most of the men, including Ben Slade. They then decide to go along with the boy up the canyon but are ambushed by the boy's father and a gang of men from Tucson. Cochise says that his people did not take them and doubts his story, as he knows the boy's father is an Apache hater. Later, Ben Slade's son spins a story to Jeffords and Cochise about two of his horses stolen by Cochise's people. Jeffords and Sonseeahray marry in an Apache ceremony and have several days of tranquility. When these renegades ambush a stagecoach, Jeffords rides off to seek help from Cochise and the stagecoach is saved. Howard, the "Christian General" condemns racism, saying that the Bible "says nothing about pigmentation of the skin.” Jeffords makes a peace treaty with Cochise, but a group led by Geronimo, oppose the treaty and leave the stronghold. The townsfolk nearly lynch Jeffords as a traitor before he is saved by General Oliver Otis Howard who recruits Jeffords to negotiate peace with Cochise.
Jeffords meets a young Apache girl, Sonseeahray, and falls in love.Ī few of Cochise's warriors attack an army wagon train and kill the survivors. Jeffords enters the Apache stronghold and begins a parley with Cochise, who agrees to let the couriers through. Instead, Jeffords learns the Apache language and customs and plans to go to Cochise's stronghold on behalf of his friend, Milt, who is in charge of the mail service in Tucson.
He corrects a man's exaggerated account of the attack, but Ben Slade is incredulous and does not see why Jeffords did not kill the Apache boy. When Jeffords returns to Tucson, he encounters a prospector who escaped the ambush. The warriors then let him go but warn him not to enter Apache territory again. Helpless, he watches as they attack the prospectors and torture the survivors. However, when a group of gold prospectors approaches, the Apache gag Jeffords and tie him to a tree. The boy's tribesmen appear and are initially hostile, but decide to let Jeffords go free. Jeffords gives the boy water and treats his wounds.
Tom Jeffords comes across a wounded, 14-year-old Apache boy dying from buckshot wounds in his back.
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