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| 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 | Universal International Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.1 million[1] |
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.
Three years after the end of the Apache Wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza (Rock Hudson) shares his ideas, but 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.
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]
"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".
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