The fictional dates of this film may be from about August 1876 to about February 1877. Watching it, the newspaper articles about Geronimo's rampages at the beginning are dated to 1875 and 1876. An article dated August __ 1876 said President Grant was sending General Steele to Arizona. After the main characters arrive in Arizona, there is a time skip of six months which should go to about February 1877. Then the main action happens. Therefore, if the newspaper dates and the internal passing of time are correct, the action in the film should happen from the above-mentioned dates. And, in fact, the movie's events never really happened.
Charles Stevens, who publicized himself as Geronimo's grandson from the very beginning of his film career until the end, was, in fact, born to a white Arizona sheriff named George Stevens and a Mexican woman named Eloisa Michelena in Solomonsville, Arizona. He was not a relative of the famous Indian warrior.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its initial telecasts took place in Los Angeles Monday 5 January 1959 on KNXT (Channel 2), in Chicago 6 January 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Philadelphia 8 January 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10), in New York City 29 January 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Toledo 31 January 1959 on WTOL (Channel 11), in Asheville 5 April 1959 on WLOS (Channel 13), in Milwaukee 18 April 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), in Omaha 5 May 1959 on KETV (Channel 7) in Phoenix 9 May 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12), in Detroit 24 September 1959 on WJBK (Channel 2), and in Grand Rapids 2 November 1959 on WOOD (Channel 8).
It is claimed that Private Aubrey Eberhardt of the US Army's parachute test corps at Fort Benning, Georgia, began the practice of U.S. Army paratroopers yelling "GERONIMO!" upon exiting the airplane after he and his comrades had seen this movie the night before an important test jump in 1940.