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Programme Information

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.

Keywords:

Western, Movie, Film, 4 Star, Movies, Films, Black and White, U

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1948) (4 Star)

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

Supporting Cast:

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

Directors:

John Ford

Writers:

James Warner Bellah
Frank S. Nugent