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Fort Apache
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780630161
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0780630165
Label: RKO Radio Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: RKO Radio Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: RKO Radio Pictures
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Running Time: 127 minutes
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 09, 1948
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Editorial Review:
John Ford's 1948 classic stars John Wayne as a Cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out West at Fort Apache. Along comes a rigid, new commanding officer (Henry Fonda) who insists that everything on his watch be done by the book, including dealings with local Indians. The results are mixed: greater discipline at the fort, but increased hostilities with the natives. Ford deliberately leaves judgments about the wisdom of these changes ambiguous, but he also allows plenty of room in this wonderful film for the fullness of life among the soldiers and their families--community rituals, new romances--to blossom. Fonda, in an unusual role for him, is stern and formal as the new man in charge; Wayne is heroic as the rebellious second; Victor McLaglen provides comic relief; and Ward Bond is a paragon of sturdy and sentimental masculinity. All of this is set against the magnificent, poetic topography of Monument Valley. This is easily one of the greatest of American films. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Fort Apache
I have never been into Classic Westerns or John Wayne for that matter.
However, one day when I was feeling lazy and feeling like a "couch potato" I found this movie on television.
I figured it would hold my interest for a few minutes but I was wrong! First off the music caught my ear and the words to the songs became stuck in my head! Pleasantly so though.
With being used to modern, action packed and special effect loaded movies of today, which I love and go to ... Read More
Rating:  - The beginning of a trilogy which will expand to six films...
This is the first film which uses the US Cavalry as the background/set (as much as Monumental Valley) for telling us a typical John Ford story, there are the values of decency and common sense and the very important sense of humor in one side and bigotry and stupidity in the other... and that on the same side (meaning life in the regiment which is a metaphor of a rigid society)... confronted against the Indians who as usual in early Ford films just plays the danger OUTSIDE...
Filmed in black&white ... Read More
Rating: - Fort Apache
This is a great classic movie where the hero (John Wayne) struggles with what he knows is right and what he is ordered to do. Shirley Temple plays a spoiled daughter who falls in love for the first time against her parent's wishes, but love and duty both triumph in the end.
Rating: - Fonda dukes it out with the Duke, verbally.
If you want to see Henry Fonda play the stiffest, grouchiest, most conceited, most pigheaded, most vainglorious, most embittered, most foolish military commander you can imagine, this is the right film.
With all these negatives, a watchable film is going too require a good deal of counterbalancing humor, song and female presence. John Ford duly provided such aplenty in the form of the cultural contrasts between the formal New Englander, Colonel Thursday(Fonda) and the rough and ready westerners ... Read More
Rating: - Needed Tightening in the Screenplay
While I like "Fort Apache," I feel that there is too much horseplay in the movie as well as too much Shirley Temple-John Agar. Joanne Dru is far superior in a similar type of role in the follow-up "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon." The screenplay to "Fort Apache" could have been tightened up dropping about 10 minutes and giving it a more streamlined result. "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" is a superior film because of a better handled script. Having said that, "Fort Apache" is still very entertaining. Its strength is ... Read More
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