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After the American Civil War, highly respected veteran Captain Kirby York is the acting commander at Fort Apache, an isolated U.S. cavalry post on the Arizona frontier. York commanded his own regiment during the Civil War and had learned the ways of the Apache.
A young and arrogant lieutenant colonel clashes with a veteran captain over the treatment of the local Apache tribe at Fort Apache. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic western film.
- (20K)
- Drama, Western
- John Ford
- 1948-05-21
Fort Apache Historic Park. Tour well-preserved ruins and a historic military outpost at this Apache Wars-era settlement. The forests and rivers near present-day Pinetop-Lakeside sustained the Apache people and their ancestors for thousands of years.
Fort Apache (Western Apache: Tłʼog Hagai) is an unincorporated community in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Today's settlement of Fort Apache incorporates elements of the original U.S. Cavalry post Fort Apache, and lies within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, home of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Canyon Day.
Find out who starred in and worked on the classic Western film Fort Apache, directed by John Ford and featuring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and more on IMDb.
Fort Apache, Arizona – Warring with the Indians. Camp Apache, by Timothy H. O Sullivan, 1873. From its founding in 1870 until Geronimo’s capture in 1886, Fort Apache, Arizona, was regularly involved in the Indian Wars of the area.
Fort Apache was a child of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. Its name conjures up visions of the U.S. Cavalry pursuing hostile Indians across the arid Southwest, but Hollywood’s portrayal of the old fort is quite a contrast to reality.
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