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Fort Apache

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  Fort Apache Review
Tookey's Rating
6 /10
 
Average Rating
7.23 /10
 
Starring
Henry Fonda , John Wayne , Shirley Temple
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Directed by: John Ford
Written by: Frank S. Nugent from James Warner Bellah's story Massacre

 
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Released: 1948
   
Genre: WESTERN
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: BW
   
Length: 127
 
 


 

An inflexible military man (Henry Fonda) clashes with wiser heads (John Wayne, mostly) on how to deal with Indians.

Reviewed by Chris Tookey


Vintage John Ford western, with the usual ingredients: broad comedy, spectacular scenery, pioneering sentiment. Henry Fonda stars as a thinly disguised General Custer, John Wayne as his more level-headed junior officer. Shirley Temple is badly miscast as the love interest. This is the first of Ford's celebrated "cavalry trilogy", the other parts being She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande.

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