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Manufacturer: RKO Radio Pictures
Starring: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond
Directed By: John Ford
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0053939791426
Format: Black & White
Label: RKO Radio Pictures
Manufacturer: RKO Radio Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: RKO Radio Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-05-22
Running Time: 128
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1948-03-09
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The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man they're duty-bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster. John Wayne Henry Fonda and many familiar supporting players from master director John Ford's "stock company" saddle up for the first film in the director's famed cavalry trilogy (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande are the others). Roughhouse camaraderie sentimental vignettes of frontier life massive action sequences staged in Monument Valley - all are part of Fort Apache. So is Ford's exploration of the West's darker side. Themes of justice heroism and honor that Ford would revisit in later Westerns are given rein in this moving thought-provoking film that even as it salutes a legend gives reasons to question it.Running Time: 128 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â WESTERN/MISC. Rating:Â NR UPC:Â 053939791426 Manufacturer No:Â T7914
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Summary: John Wayne's name drew us to this movie.
Comment: John Wayne's name drew us to this movie. If he was not in it we would not have enjoyed it too well. He pretty much saved the day just being in the movie. It was not as great a story as so many of his others. Nice Family movie, no foul language, no obscenity.
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Summary: Fort Apache
Comment: 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 see often, I was entertained by the simplicity of the movie. The story line was simple with clear cut "good vs bad" and strong characters who wanted to do the right thing.
The movie was filmed in the west and the outdoor scenes were very good. I thought the Native American portrayal was not that bad considering the time period the movie was made.
John Wayne surprised me as I found his acting to be good and of course Henry Fonda is a classic actor. So, I watched the entire movie and I enjoyed it, I did not get bored, and I ended up buying a copy for myself!
So, if you like the "old west" give this fifties movie a chance.
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Summary: The beginning of a trilogy which will expand to six films...
Comment: 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 in the exceptional way of the master it has passed with honors the terrible true test of time and has become a classic.
The script is what you can expect, but mainly is a confrontation between the martinet colonel (from the East) played convincingly by Henry Fonda and the professional (in the West) played by an excellent John Wayne, add the usual love affair, the funny Irish sergeant tricks (read Victor McLaglen) etc.
John Ford will go on and do "SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON" in Technicolor (probably the best one of the so called "trilogy", and then "RIO GRANDE" again in black&white (this one as a compromise to raise money for the shooting of "THE QUIET MAN") with the benefit of Maureen O'Hara but probably the most inane of the three... if you add "THE HORSE SOLDIERS" (ACW), "SERGEANT RUTLEDGE" (buffalo soldiers) and "CHEYENNE AUTUMN" (crepuscular movie in defense of the indian natives)... it would eventually make six excellent films (plus the scenes where the cavalry appears in "STAGECOACH", "THE SEARCHERS" and "TWO RODE TOGETHER"...
If ever the US Cavalry needed a recruiting manager John Ford WAS AND IS IT (quite contradictory for a navy honorary admiral!).
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Summary: Fort Apache
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Fonda dukes it out with the Duke, verbally.
Comment: 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 inside and outside of the post he has come to command. Seems the ranks of the NCOs at this post are mostly filled with fun-loving Irishmen. Thursday's beautiful teen daughter, Philadelphia(Shirley Temple), provides an easy entry into the feminine presence in the fort.
A new West Point graduate, Lt. O'Rourke, also the son of resident Sergeant O'Rourke, happens to be arriving at the fort the same day as the Thursdays. The Colonel is very chagrined to find an escort waiting for Lt. O'Rourke, but not for himself! He's also chagrined to find that the party in progress when he arrives is not in his honor, but is a birthday party. "Whose birthday?" he asks menacingly. "General George Washington's", was the satisfactory answer. Thursday keeps addressing Lt. O'Rourke by various misnomers, suggesting he regards him so little that his name isn't worth remembering. Once he finds out that his daughter has designs on O'Rourke, he can finally remember his name! When Thursday is introduced to the former post commander, unbelievably, he declines to meet the extended hand of his predecessor!
This is the only film in which Ford's two favorite leading men, Fonda and Wayne, star together, usually as antagonists on how to properly deal with the Apaches. Wayne, as Cpt. York, is knowedgeable and respective of the Apache's ways, while Thursday refuses to learn from the experience of York nor to respect the military prowess and agreements of the Apaches. He does, however, come to share the general disgust with the appointed "indian" agent, whose self-serving policies have led some of the Apaches to abandon the reservation in favor of Mexico and others to kill some soldiers on details.
Anthony Mann later directed a film "The Last Frontier", in which the theme of an arrogant greenhorn commander from the East who refuses to heed the advice of those used to the local Native Americans, is repeated. Although not as well balanced as the present film, it's worth checking out. In both films, the offending commander has to be eliminated in order to allow a budding romance involving a woman dear to his heart to proceed to completion.
In my opinion, this is the most enjoyable western Ford(and perhaps anyone else) directed, in spite of Colonel Thursday's difficult personality and the absence of either Walter Brennan or Gabby Hayes(neither on Ford's list of essential supporting actors). It's my guess the name Thursday was meant to have some symbolic significance. Thursday is, of course, named in honor of the Norse and Germanic god of thunder and war, protector of gods and humans from danger.
Shirley Temple seems a tad stiff in her role. Perhaps this was intended as a consequence of a finishing school experience. She seems to be playing a girl of about 16, a few years younger than her actual age, who easily pouts when her clear romantic interest in a man is not immediately returned. John Agar, who plays her romantic interest, was in fact her husband at the time, but not for long. I was struck how much her face at this age resembled that of a young Jane Mansfield.
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