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Fort Apache

Name: Fort Apache
Genre: Western
Released: 1948-05-21
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 7

★ 7,0 /10 (409 Votes)

1948 EN 128 min

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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Release date

21/05/1948

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409

Popularity

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John Ford's Masterpiece of the Frontier!

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

128 min

Budget

$2,500,000

Revenue

$3,000,000

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John Wayne

Capt. Kirby York

Henry Fonda

Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

Shirley Temple

Philadelphia Thursday

Pedro Armendáriz

Sgt. Beaufort

Ward Bond

Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke

George O'Brien

Capt. Sam Collingwood

Victor McLaglen

Sgt. Festus Mulcahy

Anna Lee

Mrs. Emily Collingwood

Irene Rich

Mrs. Mary O'Rourke

Dick Foran

Sgt. Quincannon

Guy Kibbee

Capt. Dr. Wilkens

Grant Withers

Silas Meacham

Jack Pennick

Sgt. Daniel Schattuck

Ray Hyke

Lt. Gates

Movita

Guadalupe

Miguel Inclán

Cochise

Mary Gordon

Ma (barmaid)

No photo

Philip Kieffer

Cavalryman

Mae Marsh

Mrs. Gates

Hank Worden

Southern Recruit

John Agar

2nd Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke

No photo

Abdullah Abbas

Officer at Dance (uncredited)

No photo

Danny Borzage

Recruit With Mustache / Accordionist at Serenade (uncredited)

Cliff Clark

Stage Driver (uncredited)

No photo

Jane Crowley

Officer's Wife (uncredited)

Frank Ferguson

Newspaperman (uncredited)

Francis Ford

Fen - Stage Guard (uncredited)

William Forrest

Reporter (uncredited)

Fred Graham

Cavalryman (uncredited)

Frank McGrath

Cpl. Derice (uncredited)

Clyde McLeod

Officer at Dance (uncredited)

No photo

Russell Meeker

Officer at Dance (uncredited)

No photo

Al Murphy

Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

No photo

John Rice

Officer at Dance (uncredited)

No photo

Phil Schumacher

Soldier (uncredited)

No photo

Allen D. Sewall

Officer at Dance (uncredited)

Mickey Simpson

NCO at Dance (uncredited)

No photo

Leslie Sketchley

Officer at Dance (uncredited)

No photo

Brick Sullivan

Officer at Dance (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook

Tom O'Feeney (uncredited)

Archie Twitchell

Reporter (uncredited)

No photo

Eleanore Vogel

Officer's Wife (uncredited)

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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 black and white with Ford still making spectacular use of the Monument Valley location. The story primarily deals with opposite factions within the same army. On one hand is Lt. Col. Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda), stiffly rigid in his beliefs, a stickler for the rules and pig ignorant and hostile towar…

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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 and soon it all gets a bit sticky. John Agar and Shirley Temple provide an amiable romantic sub-plot as the very green lieutenant son of the Sergeant Major (Ward Bond) and the daughter of the Colonel who fall in love - despite the disapproval of (for different reasons) both sets of parents. The photo…

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