Fort Apache

Fort Apache

Fort Apache

7.0/ 10

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1948

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128 min

Runtime

Western

Overview

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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Keywords

apache nation

colonel

slaughter

black and white

military

tortured to death

american civil war

19th century

john ford's cavalry trilogy

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Cast

John Wayne

John Wayne

Capt. Kirby York

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple

Philadelphia Thursday

Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

Sgt. Beaufort

Ward Bond

Ward Bond

Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke

George O'Brien

George O'Brien

Capt. Sam Collingwood

Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

Sgt. Festus Mulcahy

Anna Lee

Anna Lee

Mrs. Emily Collingwood

Irene Rich

Irene Rich

Mrs. Mary O'Rourke

Dick Foran

Dick Foran

Sgt. Quincannon

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Reviews(2)

8.0avg rating

John Chard

John Chard

May 29, 2019

9

9/10

Any questions? Fort Apache is the first film of what came to be known as John Ford's US Cavalry trilogy. Just like the other two, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon & Rio Grande, this is also based on a short story by James Warner Bellah. Originally intended to be shot in colour, it was however filmed in b…

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 9, 2022

7

7/10

Certainly, I think, the best of the John Ford US cavalry trilogies this one. Henry Fonda is cracking as the honourable, but out of his depth, by-the-book colonel sent to run a ramshackle army post just as the Apache are on the rise again. He replaces the far more practically experienced John Wayne a…

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