Fort.Apache.PAL.DVD9

Description

The first film of John Fords celebrated Cavalry Trilogy FORT

APACHE mirrors the effects of the directors wartime experience

on his attitude toward military command. Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

(Henry Fonda) a West Point-trained Civil War veteran is sent

to command the remote Arizona outpost of Fort Apache. An

arrogant by-the-book officer hes annoyed at having drawn

such an ignominious assignment. Despite the warnings of

veteran Indian-fighter Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne) he

dismisses the notion that a group of savages could possibly

be of concern to one possessing his military prowess. After

Thursdays daughter Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) and young

Lt. Michael ORourke (Ward Bond) find the bodies of some

mutilated soldiers its discovered that Indian agent Silas

Meacham (Grant Withers) has been stirring the Apaches up

by selling them liquor illegally. York persuades Thursday to

withhold all action until he can arrange peace talks with

Cochise (Miguel Inclan) but when the Indian chief shows up

for the palaver he finds that the blindly willful army commander

has called out the entire regiment for an attack on the Apache

force. A tragic absorbingly complex study of the problems of

command FORT APACHE benefits enormously from Fondas

superb performance and the exhaustive research of screenwriter

Frank S. Nugent into Apache culture and the army outposts

of the era.



Technical Details

Region 2

Running Time: 122 minutes

Production Year: 1948

Main Language: English

Subtitles: Nordic

Genre: Westerns

Certificate: U Universal - Suitable for all

Directed by: John Ford



7,7/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040369/