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Fort Apache is a 1948 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda. The film was the first of the director's "Cavalry Trilogy" and was followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950), both also starring Wayne. The screenplay was inspired by James Warner Bellah's short story "Massacre" (1947).
A veteran captain and a young lieutenant colonel clash over how to deal with the local Apache tribe at a remote U.S. cavalry outpost. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic John Ford film.
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- Drama, Western
- John Ford
- 1948-05-21
Find out who starred in and worked on the classic Western film Fort Apache, directed by John Ford and featuring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and more on IMDb.
A classic Western film starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple. Learn about the characters, actors and crew of Fort Apache, a story of a clash between the US Army and the Apache tribe.
Fort Apache, American western film, released in 1948, that was the first, and widely considered the best, of director John Ford’s “cavalry trilogy.” Inspired by the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), the film was unique for its time in portraying Native Americans sympathetically as victims of the
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At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.
