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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 veteran captain and a young lieutenant colonel clash over how to deal with the local Apache tribe at a remote U.S. cavalry outpost. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic John Ford 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.
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 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.
Fort Apache, American western film, released in 1948, that was the first, and widely considered the best, of director John Ford’s “cavalry trilogy.” Inspired by the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), the film was unique for its time in portraying Native Americans sympathetically as victims of the
In Arizona, after the Civil War, Lt. Col. Owen Thursday and his teenaged daughter Philadelphia stop at a rest station on the road to Fort Apache, where Thursday has just been reassigned as cavalry commander.
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