William Witney's Apache Rifles isn't the greatest advertisement for Audie Murphy or 1960's Westerns, and if truth be told the picture and sound quality of this film are extremely iffy too. I'd also never heard of Admiral Pictures, or Grant Whylock the head of their production company, but I've read that Murphy starred in several of their films. Apache Rifles is another of those budget Westerns that puts Murphy in a uniform, this time as a US Cavalry officer with a past, and an apparent hatred for Indians, especially Apaches. It's a film that does take a different tact to most of the other Westerns with the greed of the white man the principal antagonists here in another of those Indians versus miners looking to trespass on their reservation for gold. We get a romantic subplot, various acts of brutality and torture, Murphy butting heads with superiors, a hot-headed son of the Apache Chief who might just be loco, and racism aplenty. There's a bit of action, L. Q. Jones reminding us all of what a badass villain he could be, and Murphy's character doing a complete 180% about turn on his sympathies towards the Apaches. It's a standard Western, but the script is poor, the cinematography ropey, and I'm not sure whether it was just my Dvd, but the sound lacked crispness and was muffled in places? I also didn't like the convenient ending either, if they'd ended the film a minute earlier, that would have been more suitable and been in tandem with the tone of what had come before.