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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). For the character of Cochise, director Daves eliminated the traditional style of broken English and replaced it with conventional English so that White Americans and Native Americans would sound alike. [6]
Broken Arrow is a Western television series that ran on ABC-TV in prime time from September 25, 1956, through September 18, 1960. [1] The show was based on the 1947 novel Blood Brothers, by Elliott Arnold, which had been made into a film in 1950, starring James Stewart as Tom Jeffords and Jeff Chandler playing as Cochise.
Broken Arrow is a TV series adapted from the 1950 film that told a fictionalized account of the historical relationship between Tom Jeffords (John Lupton) and Cochise (Michael Ansara); the show was aired on ABC in prime time from 1956 through 1958. [16] Cochise was portrayed by Jeff Morrow in a 1961 episode of Bonanza. [17]
Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel; December 15, 1918 – June 17, 1961) was an American actor.He was best known for his portrayal of Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
While making the Broken Arrow series, the 20th Century-Fox publicity department arranged a date between Ansara and actress Barbara Eden, whom he later married. [41] In 1961, Ansara co-starred with Eden in the film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. [42] In 1966, Ansara guest-starred on Eden's sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie, as the Blue Djinn.
Cochise was unwilling to accept the Tularosa Valley as his reservation and home. In October 1872, Jeffords led General Oliver O. Howard to Cochise's Stronghold, believed to be China Meadow, in the Dragoon Mountains. Cochise demanded and got the Dragoon and Chiricahua Mountains as his reservation and Tom Jeffords as his agent. From 1872 to 1876 ...
The Bascom Affair is mentioned in the 1950 film Broken Arrow by James Stewart's character as several white men argue matters of right and wrong about the violence between Apaches and white settlers. The Battle at Apache Pass is a sequel, without James Stewart, that shows how the Bascom Affair started.
The Battle at Apache Pass is a 1952 American Western film directed by George Sherman.The stars are John Lund as United States Army Maj. Colton and Jeff Chandler (in brownface) repeating the role of Apache chief Cochise, whom he had played two years earlier in 20th Century Fox's Broken Arrow. [2]