Taza, Son of Cochise

Taza, Son of Cochise
Taza, Son of Cochise
	Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by	Douglas Sirk
Screenplay by	George Zuckerman
Story by	Gerald Drayson Adams; (story and adaptation)
Produced by	Ross Hunter
Starring	Rock Hudson; Barbara Rush
Cinematography	Russell Metty, A.S.C.
Edited by	Milton Carruth A.C.E.
Music by	Frank Skinner
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Universal International Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	February 18, 1954;
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.1 million

Taza, Son of Cochise is a 1954 American Western film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush. The film was shot in 3D, and is one of just two films confirmed to have been released in the Pola-Lite 3D System using one projector.

Plot

Three years after the end of the Apache Wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza (Rock Hudson) shares his ideas, but (in this fictional narrative) brother Naiche (Bart Roberts) yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona (Barbara Rush). Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to start a war.

Cast

Rock Hudson as Taza
Barbara Rush as Oona
Gregg Palmer as Captain Burnett
Bart Roberts as Naiche
Morris Ankrum as Grey Eagle
Gene Iglesias as Chato
Richard H. Cutting as Cy Hegan
Ian MacDonald as Geronimo
Robert Burton as General Crook
Joe Sawyer as Sgt. Hamma
Lance Fuller as Lt. Willis
Bradford Jackson as Lt. Richards (as Brad Jackson)
James Van Horn as Skinya
Charles Horvath as Kocha
Robert F. Hoy as Lobo (as Robert Hoy)
Barbara Burck as Mary
Dan White as Tiswin Charlie
Jeff Chandler as Cochise (uncredited)
Russell Johnson as Narrator (uncredited)

Production

It was the third time Jeff Chandler played Cochise, following Broken Arrow and The Battle at Apache Pass.^[2] Parts of the film were shot in Castle Valley, Professor Valley, Sand Flats, Devil's Garden, and Arches National Park in Utah.^[3]

Acknowledgment in end credits

"We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior whose splendid cooperation made possible the photography of scenes at Arches National Monument Park".

Home media

Universal Home Video, in conjunction with Turner Classic Movies, released a print-on-demand Region 1 DVD of Taza, Son of Cochise in 2014.^[4]
KL Studio Classics released a new 2K 3D restoration of the title on Region A Blu-ray in May 2020 in combined 3D and 2D formats.^[5]^[6]

References

^ "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. January 5, 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada
^ "WORK AT WARNERS RESUMES TUESDAY: Rehearsals on New Pictures Will Get Under Way After Shutdown of 3 Months". New York Times. July 10, 1953. p. 10.
^ D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.
^ shop.tcm.com
^ KL Studio Classics on Twitter
^ "Taza, Son of Cochise 3-D".

External links

Taza, Son of Cochise at IMDb
Taza, Son of Cochise at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Review of film at Variety
Taza, Son of Cochise Archived June 10, 2020, at the Wayback Machine at the 3-D Film Archive

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[box-1] "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. January 5, 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada

[2] "WORK AT WARNERS RESUMES TUESDAY: Rehearsals on New Pictures Will Get Under Way After Shutdown of 3 Months". New York Times. July 10, 1953. p. 10.

[3] D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.

[4] shop.tcm.com

[5] KL Studio Classics on Twitter

[6] "Taza, Son of Cochise 3-D".

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