Fort Apache (1948)

Movie Details

Original Title Fort Apache

Original Language EN

Budget $2,500,000

Revenue $3,000,000

Status Released

Popularity 2.7

Cast

John Wayne

Capt. Kirby York

Popularity: 1.5

Henry Fonda

Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

Popularity: 1.3

Shirley Temple

Philadelphia Thursday

Popularity: 1.3

Pedro Armendáriz

Sgt. Beaufort

Popularity: 2.9

Ward Bond

Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke

Popularity: 1.2

George O'Brien

Capt. Sam Collingwood

Popularity: 5.2

Victor McLaglen

Sgt. Festus Mulcahy

Popularity: 7.9

Anna Lee

Mrs. Emily Collingwood

Popularity: 11.5

Irene Rich

Mrs. Mary O'Rourke

Popularity: 4.1

Dick Foran

Sgt. Quincannon

Popularity: 1.4

Guy Kibbee

Capt. Dr. Wilkens

Popularity: 3.0

Grant Withers

Silas Meacham

Popularity: 3.8

Key Crew

Screenplay Frank S. Nugent

Director John Ford

Producer Merian C. Cooper

Editor Jack Murray

Executive Producer Merian C. Cooper, John Ford

Cinematography William H. Clothier

Production

Argosy Pictures

Videos & Trailers

Thursday's Charge Into an Apache Ambush

Clip

Escape from Diablo's Band

Clip

Fort Apache

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Keywords

captain apache nation colonel slaughter black and white military tortured to death american civil war 19th century john ford's cavalry trilogy

Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 9/10

May 29, 2019

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 b ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jul 9, 2022

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 a ... Read more