Apache Woman

Apache Woman is a 1955 American Western directed by Roger Corman and starring Lloyd Bridges. It was Corman's second film as director, following Five Guns West. It was one of four Westerns he made for American International Pictures, the other being Five Guns West, The Oklahoma Woman (1955) and Gunslinger (1956). Corman says Apache Woman and Oklahoma Woman were from ideas by AIP whereas the others were his ideas. This was the first film from Golden State Productions, a company headed by Alex Gordon. Plot The Apaches are being rebellious and government agent Rex Moffett is called in to get to the bottom of who is behind it. Possible suspects include half-Apache Anne Libeau and her brother Armand Libeau. Cast Lloyd Bridges as Rex Moffett Joan Taylor as Anne LeBeau Lance Fuller as Armand LeBeau Morgan Jones as Macy Paul Birch as Sheriff Lou Place as Carrom, the undercover agent Paul Dubov as Ben Hunter Jonathan Haze as Tom Chandler Gene Marlowe as Chief White Star Dick Miller as Tall Tree Chester Conklin as Dick Mooney Production The film was one of the first releases of the American Releasing Corporation which became AIP. They had previously distributed two films made by Roger Corman's company, Paolo Alto, The Fast and the Furious and Five Guns West, but Apache Woman was the first film from the production company, Golden State, which was set up by ARC, and run by Alex Gordon. (Golden State's second movie would be Day the World Ended, also directed by Corman.)