This is the story of a doomed love, Romeo and Juliet set in the American South West at the time of the Indian wars rather than in Medieval Italy; This time it is not the Montagues versus the Capulets in a vicious civil war, but the US Cavalry in a race-war against the pitiless Apaches. Against all the odds the hero, a US Cavalry man and the heroine, a beautiful Apache girl find love.
Towards the end there is an idyllic scene by a river. He dreams his impossible dream, "I'll build a house. Let the others all kill each other.We'll raise a family, have sons." She repeats, "Sons.". Then the inevitable brutal reality breaks in .
Spoilers: the end of the film finds him finding her abandoned corpse. He buries her, seeks out her tormentors and murderers and executes them. The final scene shows him standing over her grave, when he is shot from behind, dying he collapses onto her grave and manages to whisper her name before expiring.
A film worth watching. A moving story. He's handsome, and she is very attractive.
Towards the end there is an idyllic scene by a river. He dreams his impossible dream, "I'll build a house. Let the others all kill each other.We'll raise a family, have sons." She repeats, "Sons.". Then the inevitable brutal reality breaks in .
Spoilers: the end of the film finds him finding her abandoned corpse. He buries her, seeks out her tormentors and murderers and executes them. The final scene shows him standing over her grave, when he is shot from behind, dying he collapses onto her grave and manages to whisper her name before expiring.
A film worth watching. A moving story. He's handsome, and she is very attractive.