Fort Apache

(1948)

★ 7 IMDb · 425 votes

Genres: Western

Year: 1948

Runtime: 125 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джон Форд

Cast: Джон Уэйн, Генри Фонда, Ширли Темпл, Pedro Armendáriz, Уорд Бонд, Джордж О'Брайен, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Ирен Рич, Дик Форан

Plot

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.

Deep into the territory of the great Apache chief, Cochise, the demoted Civil War general, Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday, reports for duty as a commanding officer at the remote U.S. cavalry outpost known as Fort Apache, along with his daughter, Philadelphia. There, the arrogant commander will soon lock horns with the realistic and sensible second-in-command, Captain Kirby York, who, as an expert in the local Apaches, disagrees with Thursday who wants to make a name for himself in the Arizona frontier. In the end, is it wise to engage in battle when personal glory is all you seek?