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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0053939791426 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: RKO Radio Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: RKO Radio Pictures MPN: T7914 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: RKO Radio Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 22, 2007 Running Time: 128 minutes Studio: RKO Radio Pictures Theatrical Release Date: March 09, 1948 Editorial Review: Product Description: The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man they're duty-bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster. John Wayne Henry Fonda and many familiar supporting players from master director John Ford's "stock company" saddle up for the first film in the director's famed cavalry trilogy (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande are the others). Roughhouse camaraderie sentimental vignettes of frontier life massive action sequences staged in Monument Valley - all are part of Fort Apache. So is Ford's exploration of the West's darker side. Themes of justice heroism and honor that Ford would revisit in later Westerns are given rein in this moving thought-provoking film that even as it salutes a legend gives reasons to question it.Running Time: 128 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 053939791426 Manufacturer No: T7914 Amazon.com essential video: John Ford's 1948 classic stars John Wayne as a Cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out West at Fort Apache. Along comes a rigid, new commanding officer (Henry Fonda) who insists that everything on his watch be done by the book, including dealings with local Indians. The results are mixed: greater discipline at the fort, but increased hostilities with the natives. Ford deliberately leaves judgments about the wisdom of these changes ambiguous, but he also allows plenty of room in this wonderful film for the fullness of life among the soldiers and their families--community rituals, new romances--to blossom. Fonda, in an unusual role for him, is stern and formal as the new man in charge; Wayne is heroic as the rebellious second; Victor McLaglen provides comic relief; and Ward Bond is a paragon of sturdy and sentimental masculinity. All of this is set against the magnificent, poetic topography of Monument Valley. This is easily one of the greatest of American films. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - John Wayne's name drew us to this movie.John Wayne's name drew us to this movie. If he was not in it we would not have enjoyed it too well. He pretty much saved the day just being in the movie. It was not as great a story as so many of his others. Nice Family movie, no foul language, no obscenity. Rating: - Fort ApacheI have never been into Classic Westerns or John Wayne for that matter. However, one day when I was feeling lazy and feeling like a "couch potato" I found this movie on television. I figured it would hold my interest for a few minutes but I was wrong! First off the music caught my ear and the words to the songs became stuck in my head! Pleasantly so though. With being used to modern, action packed and special effect loaded movies of today, which I love and go to ... Read More Rating:  - The beginning of a trilogy which will expand to six films...This is the first film which uses the US Cavalry as the background/set (as much as Monumental Valley) for telling us a typical John Ford story, there are the values of decency and common sense and the very important sense of humor in one side and bigotry and stupidity in the other... and that on the same side (meaning life in the regiment which is a metaphor of a rigid society)... confronted against the Indians who as usual in early Ford films just plays the danger OUTSIDE... Filmed in black&white ... Read More Rating: - Fort ApacheThis is a great classic movie where the hero (John Wayne) struggles with what he knows is right and what he is ordered to do. Shirley Temple plays a spoiled daughter who falls in love for the first time against her parent's wishes, but love and duty both triumph in the end. Rating: - Fonda dukes it out with the Duke, verbally.If you want to see Henry Fonda play the stiffest, grouchiest, most conceited, most pigheaded, most vainglorious, most embittered, most foolish military commander you can imagine, this is the right film. With all these negatives, a watchable film is going too require a good deal of counterbalancing humor, song and female presence. John Ford duly provided such aplenty in the form of the cultural contrasts between the formal New Englander, Colonel Thursday(Fonda) and the rough and ready westerners ... Read More |
