THE WHITE CAUCASIAN TRAIL OF TEARS FOR THE REDSKINS

JOHN WAYNE — GERALDINE PAGE — HONDO — 1953

THE ONLY GOOD APACHE IS A DEAD APACHE.

How can we position a romantic paramour relationship between a man and a woman, with the woman’s child on the side, or maybe in the very center? The man is Hondo Lane, a somewhat famous fast shooter who only trusts his six-shooter Colt and eventually a carbine. Hence, he is well-known in the West and Far West, and his reputation may frighten some people, and it does the woman, Angie Lowe. But she is married, and she took her husband some years ago when she was too young to be sound of mind, and the husband is an open outlaw who only looks for trouble because trouble means some profit if you choose your targets properly. In fact, some time later in the film, Hondo Lane will kill, out of self-defense, the husband and recuperate the picture of his son he was holding all along.

In the meantime, the local Apaches, led by Chief Vittorio, invade Angie Lowe’s ranch, and it goes through rather fine because Chief Vittorio is fascinated by Angie’s son Ed Lowe, and he takes him under his protection. Ed’s picture, recovered by Hondo Lane from the dead father, is going to save his life in the Apache camp because Chief Vittorio believes Hondo Lane is Ed’s father.