Fort Apache
by John Ford
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Actor: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Pedro Armend?riz, Shirley Temple, Ward BondDirector: John Ford
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Archie Stout
Cinematographer: William H. Clothier
Producer: John Ford
Editor: Jack Murray
Producer: Merian C. Cooper
Writer: James Warner Bellah
Writer: Frank S. Nugent
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Movie Reviews of Fort Apache
Movie Review: Nice character study
Summary: 4 Stars
1948 John Ford western, starring Henry Fonda, John Wayne, and a 20-year-old Shirley Temple. Mostly a character study of an aging war hero (Fonda) shuffled off to an outlying fort, and wanting one more chance for the fame and glory that he misses. Unfortunately, it's his men that pay the price. Shirley Temple is involved in the sub-plot as his daughter, dragged from the east coast to the wild west, falls for a local soldier. Some pretty funny scenes with the character actors who plays the local soldiers/drunks, and some pretty intense subjects that still resonate today. Based in part on Custer's Last Stand.
Summary of Fort Apache
The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man, they're duty-bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster. John Wayne, Henry Fonda and many familiar supporting players from master director John Ford's "stock company" saddle up for the first film in the director's famed cavalry trilogy (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande are the others). Roughhouse camaraderie, sentimental vignettes of frontier life, massive action sequences staged in Monument Valley - all are part of Fort Apache. So is Ford's exploration of the West's darker side. Themes of justice, heroism and honor that Ford would revisit in later Westerns are given rein in this moving, thought-provoking film that, even as it salutes a legend, gives reasons to question it.John Ford's 1948 classic stars John Wayne as a Cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out West at Fort Apache. Along comes a rigid, new commanding officer (Henry Fonda) who insists that everything on his watch be done by the book, including dealings with local Indians. The results are mixed: greater discipline at the fort, but increased hostilities with the natives. Ford deliberately leaves judgments about the wisdom of these changes ambiguous, but he also allows plenty of room in this wonderful film for the fullness of life among the soldiers and their families--community rituals, new romances--to blossom. Fonda, in an unusual role for him, is stern and formal as the new man in charge; Wayne is heroic as the rebellious second; Victor McLaglen provides comic relief; and Ward Bond is a paragon of sturdy and sentimental masculinity. All of this is set against the magnificent, poetic topography of Monument Valley. This is easily one of the greatest of American films. --Tom Keogh
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