"In this film, 70-year-old "Apache Bill" Cochenour tells of his lifelong love affair with trucks and the American open road. Now retired and living on a small farm in Pennsylvania, Bill can't seem to get trucking out of his blood. The film was produced by Michael Stern" (US National Archives). The film was made with the support of the USIA's Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant program.
Bill Cochenour ("Apache Bill")
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"In this film, 70-year-old "Apache Bill" Cochenour tells of his lifelong love affair with trucks and the American open road. Now retired and living on a small farm in Pennsylvania, Bill can't seem to get trucking out of his blood. The film was produced by Michael Stern" (US National Archives). The film was made with the support of the USIA's Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant program.
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a friend of his, Moose, who is in jail. Moose asks Luke to take care of Matt, and to help him to take possession of a piece of land. So starts their travel, full of adventures...
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
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