Fort Apache (Blu-ray)
John Ford's Masterpiece of the Frontier!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 21, 2012
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Henry Fonda | |
Performer: | John Wayne, Ward Bond, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Pedro Armendáriz, Irene Rich, George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Dick Foran & Guy Kibbee | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Jack Murray | |
Screenwriting by | Frank S. Nugent | |
Composition by | Richard Hageman | |
Produced by | John Ford & Merian C. Cooper | |
Director of Photography: | Archie Stout |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's an odd film, consisting more of sidetracks than of an actual story, but it showed a new restlessness in Ford.
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Combustible Celluloid
Folks who are looking for action in the oldest tradition of the screen, observed through a genuine artist's camera, will find plenty of it here.
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New York Times
Fascinating Western loaded with political and social commentary.
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Classic Film and Television
Cast is as tremendous as the scope achieved by Ford's direction.
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Variety
Rating: A --
[Balances] a respect for classic American frontier virtues with a less generous assessment of how those virtues were applied.
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AV Club
A particularly effective vehicle for Ford's vision of the world's conflicts.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 5/5 --
One of John Ford's cavalry trilogy, and a near classic on its own. Wayne and Fonda are fine.
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Product Description:
The first film of John Ford's celebrated Cavalry Trilogy, FORT APACHE mirrors the effects of the director's wartime experience on his attitude toward military command. Lt. Col. Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda), a West Point-trained Civil War veteran, is sent to command the remote Arizona outpost of Fort Apache. An arrogant, by-the-book officer, he's annoyed at having drawn such an ignominious assignment. Despite the warnings of veteran Indian-fighter Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne), he dismisses the notion that a group of savages could possibly be of concern to one possessing his military prowess. After Thursday's daughter, Philadelphia (Shirley Temple), and young Lt. Michael O'Rourke (Ward Bond) find the bodies of some mutilated soldiers, it's discovered that Indian agent Silas Meacham (Grant Withers) has been stirring the Apaches up by selling them liquor illegally. York persuades Thursday to withhold all action until he can arrange peace talks with Cochise (Miguel Inclan), but when the Indian chief shows up for the palaver he finds that the blindly willful army commander has called out the entire regiment for an attack on the Apache force. A tragic, absorbingly complex study of the problems of command, FORT APACHE benefits enormously from Fonda's superb performance and the exhaustive research of screenwriter Frank S. Nugent into Apache culture and the army outposts of the era.
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- Sales Rank: 19,955
- UPC: 883929222087
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