In this movie an Apache warrior (Ulzana) has escaped from his reservation and begins engaging in a series of revenge killings against white settlers.
A group of US soldiers is sent out to kill Ulzana. The officer in charge of this group is a naive young man, who is a devout Christian, who (hypocritically) struggles to understand how Ulzana can kill and torture people so easily. Burt Lancaster does an amazing job as an Indian tracker in this film.
Actually I'm reading a book now called 'Empire of the Summer Moon', which is about the Comanches - who were even more fierce and cruel than the Apaches. Revenge killings and torture were, basically, an integral part of their culture and served the function of deterrence, apparently.
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