Fort Apache

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

Genre : Western

Runtime : 128 mins

Release Date : 1948-05-21

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Any questions? Fort Apache is the first film of what came to be known as John Ford's US Cavalry trilogy. Just like the other two, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon & Rio Grande, this is also based on a short story by James Warner Bellah. Originally intended to be shot in colour, it was however filmed in ...

Certainly, I think, the best of the John Ford US cavalry trilogies this one. Henry Fonda is cracking as the honourable, but out of his depth, by-the-book colonel sent to run a ramshackle army post just as the Apache are on the rise again. He replaces the far more practically experienced John Wayne ...

Cast

John Wayne

John Wayne

(Capt. Kirby York)

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

(Lt. Col. Owen Thursday)

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple

(Philadelphia Thursday)

Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

(Sgt. Beaufort)

Ward Bond

Ward Bond

(Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke)

George O'Brien

George O'Brien

(Capt. Sam Collingwood)

Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

(Sgt. Festus Mulcahy)

Anna Lee

Anna Lee

(Mrs. Emily Collingwood)

Irene Rich

Irene Rich

(Mrs. Mary O'Rourke)

Dick Foran

Dick Foran

(Sgt. Quincannon)

Guy Kibbee

Guy Kibbee

(Capt. Dr. Wilkens)

Grant Withers

Grant Withers

(Silas Meacham)

Jack Pennick

Jack Pennick

(Sgt. Daniel Schattuck)

Ray Hyke

Ray Hyke

(Lt. Gates)

Movita

Movita

(Guadalupe)

Miguel Inclán

Miguel Inclán

(Cochise)

Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon

(Ma (barmaid))

Philip Kieffer

(Cavalryman)

Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh

(Mrs. Gates)

Hank Worden

Hank Worden

(Southern Recruit)

John Agar

John Agar

(2nd Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke)

Abdullah Abbas

(Officer at Dance (uncredited))

Danny Borzage

(Recruit With Mustache / Accordionist at Serenade (uncredited))

Cliff Clark

Cliff Clark

(Stage Driver (uncredited))

Jane Crowley

(Officer's Wife (uncredited))

Frank Ferguson

Frank Ferguson

(Newspaperman (uncredited))

Francis Ford

Francis Ford

(Fen - Stage Guard (uncredited))

William Forrest

William Forrest

(Reporter (uncredited))

Fred Graham

Fred Graham

(Cavalryman (uncredited))

Frank McGrath

Frank McGrath

(Cpl. Derice (uncredited))

Clyde McLeod

(Officer at Dance (uncredited))

Russell Meeker

(Officer at Dance (uncredited))

Al Murphy

(Orchestra Leader (uncredited))

John Rice

(Officer at Dance (uncredited))

Phil Schumacher

(Soldier (uncredited))

Allen D. Sewall

(Officer at Dance (uncredited))

Mickey Simpson

Mickey Simpson

(NCO at Dance (uncredited))

Leslie Sketchley

(Officer at Dance (uncredited))

Brick Sullivan

(Officer at Dance (uncredited))

Harry Tenbrook

Harry Tenbrook

(Tom O'Feeney (uncredited))

Archie Twitchell

Archie Twitchell

(Reporter (uncredited))

Eleanore Vogel

(Officer's Wife (uncredited))

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