Fort Apache
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1948
2h 5m
NR
English
Western
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Fort Apache
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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Cast
Capt. Kirby York
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
Philadelphia Thursday
Sgt. Beaufort
Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke
Capt. Sam Collingwood
Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
Mrs. Emily Collingwood
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
Sgt. Quincannon
Capt. Dr. Wilkens
Silas Meacham
Sgt. Daniel Schattuck
Lt. Gates
Guadalupe
Cochise
Ma (barmaid)
Cavalryman
Mrs. Gates
Southern Recruit
2nd Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke
Officer at Dance (uncredited)
Recruit With Mustache / Accordionis...
Stage Driver (uncredited)
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Directed By: John Ford
Written By: Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay), James Warner Bellah (Story)
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John Chard
5 years ago
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 More
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 More
CinemaSerf
2 years ago
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 More
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