1949
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When arrogant and stubborn Civil War hero Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) arrives in Arizona with his daughter, Philadelphia (Shirley Temple), to assume command of the Fort Apache outpost, he clashes with level-headed Captain Kirby York (John Wayne).
When arrogant and stubborn Civil War hero Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) arrives in Arizona with his daughter, Philadelphia (Shirley Temple), to assume command of the Fort Apache...
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An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war.
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
a minor but ever-present distracting sublot concerned the growing but awkward (and forbidden) romance between Philadelphia and Michael O'Rourke; her elitist father considered him neither an "officer and a gentleman" as the son of an Irish immigrant, and ultimately disallowed their association.
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.
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.
