Fort Apache (Blu-ray)

John Ford's Masterpiece of the Frontier!
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  • 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

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User Ratings: 7,900
It's an odd film, consisting more of sidetracks than of an actual story, but it showed a new restlessness in Ford. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Feb 24, 2012
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. Full Review
New York Times
Mar 25, 2006
Fascinating Western loaded with political and social commentary. Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Aug 8, 2008
Cast is as tremendous as the scope achieved by Ford's direction. Full Review
Variety
Sep 2, 2008
Rating: A -- [Balances] a respect for classic American frontier virtues with a less generous assessment of how those virtues were applied. Full Review
AV Club
Nov 20, 2017
A particularly effective vehicle for Ford's vision of the world's conflicts. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Nov 18, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- One of John Ford's cavalry trilogy, and a near classic on its own. Wayne and Fonda are fine.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Mar 8, 2008

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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  • UPC: 883929222087
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