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Wikipedia article
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| director = Bruno Mattei
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| screenplay = Francesco Prosperi
| story = Roberto Di Girolamo
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| music = Luigi Ceccarelli
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| editing = Vincenzo Vanni
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'White Apache' is a 1986 Western film directed by Bruno Mattei. The film was an Italian and Spanish co-production between Beatrice Films and Multivideo.
Plot
After heavy gunfire in a clash with some outlaw, a pregnant woman is the only survivor of a caravan. Found by the Indians, the woman who is dying, is brought to the village, where she died giving birth to a child.
Cast
* Sebastian Harrison as Shining Sky
* Lola Forner as Rising Sun
* Alberto Farnese as The Governor
* Charly Bravo as Ryder
* Cinzia De Ponti as Isabella
* Charles Borromel as Crazy Bull
* Jos Canalejas as White Bear
* Luciano Pigozzi as Cribbens
Production
While the only Mattei is credited, some sources such as Kevin Grant's book 'Any Gun Can Play' state that Claudio Fragasso also directed the film uncredited. On discussing their collaborations on 'The Other Hell' and 'The True Story of the Nuns of Monza', Fragasso stated he would shoot pne film at the same time Mattei was shooting the other which was also done with their two woman in prison films 'Violence in a Women's Prison' and 'Women's Prison Massacre' and thei Westerns 'Scalps' and 'White Apache'. Mattei stater otherwise, that Fragasso was an assistant director on these films, and nothing more.
Release
'White Apache' was first released in 1986. was released in Spain on 27 May 1987. The film was also released as 'Apache Kid'.
In the uncut versions of both 'White Apache' and 'Scalps' contain scenes of scalping, dismemberment and other violence.
Reception
From retrospective reviews, in their book 'Dizionario del cinema italiano', Roberto Chiti and Roberto Poppi noted the film had a poor story, modest acting and was hastily directed while praised its attempt to develop characters in the story.
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