- Title: Fort Apache
- Original Title: Fort Apache
- Release Date: 21/05/1948
- Tagline: John Ford's Masterpiece of the Frontier!
- Budget: $2,500,000.00
- Duration:128 Min / 02:08
- Country:US
- Genre:Western
About Film
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.
Movie Rating: 7.02
Total Votes: 389
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John Chard
9/10
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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...
Geronimo1967
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 and soon it all gets a bit sticky. John Agar and...
