Geronimo - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Geronimo is a popular figure in cinema and television. Characters based on Geronimo have appeared in many films, including:

  • Geronimo's Last Raid (1912)
  • Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)
  • Geronimo (1939 film) (1939)
  • Stagecoach (1939)
  • Valley of the Sun (1942)
  • Fort Apache (1948)
  • Broken Arrow (1950)
  • I Killed Geronimo (1950)
  • The Last Outpost (1951)
  • Son of Geronimo (1952)
  • The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
  • Indian Uprising (1952)
  • Apache (1954)
  • Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
  • Walk the Proud Land (1956)
  • Geronimo (1962 film) (1962)
  • Geronimo und die Räuber (West German, 1966)
  • I Due superpiedi quasi piatti (1976)
  • Mr. Horn (1979)
  • Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
  • Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
  • Geronimo (TV film) (starring Joseph Runningfox) (1993)

In 1954, Chief Yowlachie appeared as Geronimo in an episode of the same name of Jim Davis's syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century. Brett King played Lieutenant Gatewood in the segment.

John Doucette played the role of Geronimo on the syndicated series Death Valley Days and in three segments of Tombstone Territory, starring with Pat Conway and Richard Eastham.

Geronimo's life is described and dramatised in Episode 4 of the 2009 Ric Burns/American Experience documentary We Shall Remain.

In How Few Remain, Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel depicting a world in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War, Geronimo becomes an ally to Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart, and then turns into Stuart's bitter foe, eventually assassinating him.

Thanks to a 1939 movie about Geronimo, US paratroopers traditionally shout "Geronimo" to show they have no fear of jumping out of an airplane. Other 'native American' traditions were also adopted in WWII, such as 'Mohawk' haircuts, face paint and spears on their unit patches.

Read more about this topic:  Geronimo

Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:

    “Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
    —Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)