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Fort Apache

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Fort Apache
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NR,2hrs 5min
Genre:
Western
Release:
1948
Director:
John Ford
Distributor:
Turner Home Entertainment
Starring:
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond  ...more
Synopsis: The first of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", Fort Apache stars John Wayne as captain Kirby York and Henry Fonda as Custer clone Lt. Col. Owen Thursday. Resentful of his loss in rank and transfer to the West after serving gallantly in the Civil War, the vainglorious Thursday insists upon imposing rigid authority on rough-and-tumble Fort Apache. He is particularly anxious to do battle with the local Indians, despite York's admonitions that the trouble around the fort is being fomented not by the so-called ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
The first film of John Ford's "cavalry trilogy," Fort Apache (1948) pits an arrogant Henry Fonda against an Indian-savvy John Wayne in a myth-making confrontation with Apache leader Cochise. A key antecedent to Ford's later The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Fort Apache deflates mythic lore about the cavalry's triumph over the West's "savages" while revealing how and why such myths were created. ... Full Review
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John Wayne
Capt. Kirby York
Henry Fonda
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
Ward Bond
Sgt. Major O'Rourke
Shirley Temple
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