Fort Apache (1948)

Written by James Warner Bellah, Frank S. Nugent

Directed by John Ford

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1948

Rating: U Certificate

Filmed in Black and White

The first of John Ford's cavalry trilogy, in which a commanding officer, bitter at his demotion after the Civil War, takes his resentment out on the men of Fort Apache, a remote outpost in the Arizona desert. He is determined to tighten up discipline, but eventually shows his ignorance of Indian behaviour when he leads his troops into a deadly confrontation.

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Cast

	John Wayne		Capt. Kirby York
	Henry Fonda		Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
	Shirley Temple		Philadelphia Thursday
	Pedro Armendáriz		Sgt. Beaufort
	Ward Bond		Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke
	George O'Brien		Capt. Sam Collingwood
	Victor McLaglen		Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
	Anna Lee		Mrs. Emily Collingwood
	Irene Rich		Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
	Dick Foran		Sgt. Quincannon
	Guy Kibbee		Capt. Dr. Wilkens
	Grant Withers		Silas Meacham
	Jack Pennick		Sgt. Daniel Schattuck
	Ray Hyke		Lt. Gates
	Movita		Guadalupe