GREAT INDIAN UPRISING

Evening Star, Issue 23685, 19 September 1940, Page 2

GREAT INDIAN UPRISING

THRiLLINQ STORY OF ‘ GERONIMO' ‘ Geronimo,’ to-morrow’s attraction for the Empire, deals with a phase of the Indian wars in the United States about which the screen has previously had little to say. The great Apache chief, who for years held off the entire American army in the period immediately after the Civil War is shown in all his barbaric splendour. No painted-up “ paleface ” plays the part, but a real redskin warrior, Chief Thunder Cloud. Towns are swept out of existence, wagon-trains attacked, and units of tho army ambushed in the authentic style of the gory and dangerous nineteenth century West. Ralph Morgan scores a success as the disciplinarian General Steele, sent without adequate supplies to bring tho great chief under control. As tho crafty, scheming Government agent who builds up a lucrative trade in selling arms and munitions to the Indians, Gone Lockhart is most convincing. The hero of the story is a dashing, but rather sentimental captain, played by Preston Foster, who gives his usual fine performance in the part. Andy Devine adds some comedy relief as “ Sneezer,” leader of tho scouts attached to the post. That everything in ‘ Geronimo ’ _ is “ practical " is indicated by the action of tho film. Hand-to-hand fight scenes show rattling rifles and battling savages and soldiers. Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, William Henry, Ralph Morgan, Chief Thunder Cloud, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Gateson, Kitty Kelly, and many others aro in the cast. The film tells the story of the last great Indian uprising which took place in the great south-west territory purchased by the United States from Mexico.