A Fort Apache, un onorevole capitano trova conflitti quando il suo regime è posto sotto il comando di un giovane colonnello che non ha rispetto per la tribù indiana locale.A Fort Apache, un onorevole capitano trova conflitti quando il suo regime è posto sotto il comando di un giovane colonnello che non ha rispetto per la tribù indiana locale.A Fort Apache, un onorevole capitano trova conflitti quando il suo regime è posto sotto il comando di un giovane colonnello che non ha rispetto per la tribù indiana locale.
- Premi
- 2 vittorie e 1 candidatura
- Sgt. Beaufort
- (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Cochise
- (as Miguel Inclan)
- Cavalryman
- (as Philip Keiffer)
Trama
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- QuizThe cast member who had the hardest time with John Ford was John Agar, making his film debut. Whether it was because Agar was newly married to Ford's beloved Shirley Temple or because he wanted to test him, the director rode him mercilessly, calling him "Mr. Temple" in front of everyone, criticizing the way he delivered lines, chastising him for his lack of expert horsemanship. One day Agar stormed off, vowing to quit the picture, but John Wayne took him aside and helped him with some of the more difficult aspects of his job.
- BlooperColonel Thursday tells York his hat should be creased "like a fedora." The action of "Fort Apache" takes place in 1874. The word "fedora" does not enter the language until 1882. *
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Lt. Col. Thursday: This Lt. O'Rourke - are you by chance related?
RSM Michael O'Rourke: Not by chance, sir, by blood. He's my son.
Lt. Col. Thursday: I see. How did he happen to get into West Point?
RSM Michael O'Rourke: It happened by presidential appointment, sir
Lt. Col. Thursday: Are you a former officer, O'Rourke?
RSM Michael O'Rourke: During the war, I was a major in the 69th New York regiment... The Irish Brigade, sir.
Lt. Col. Thursday: Still, it's been my impression that presidential appointments were restricted to sons of holders of the Medal of Honor.
RSM Michael O'Rourke: That is my impression, too, sir. Will that be all, sir?
- Versioni alternativeGerman version is cut to 92 minutes. It is not not known why the film was cut for the German market in 1948.
- ConnessioniEdited into John Ford, l'homme qui inventa l'Amérique (2019)
The story itself is also ripe for Ford's wonderful blend of all-American warmth and critical-while-embracing of American West themes, and there's a lot of extra entertainment with the supporting cast (mostly a who's who of genial drunks and weathered first-timers and ex-Civil War soldiers). And with one exception- a poetically ironic but unnecessary scene with Mrs. Thursday getting the telegram of his transfer right before the climactic battle- there's barely a scene that doesn't register as something worthwhile for the story, or for some interesting characterization, or even something in as simple as a dance between Thursday and O'Rourke that reveals how good Fonda could be at staying in character while in a formal bit like that. We're also given the proverbial 'good' young-actor performances from John Agar as the West Point graduate young O'Rourke who's after Shirley Temple's daughter of Col. Thursday.
Fort Apache allows for all of the thrills and curiosities of watching an 'old-fashioned' Western, but there's more than meets the eye for Ford. It's all so deceptively simple; it's not quite as masterful as the Searchers, but it's very close, at deconstructing the myths of strong American men going to kill Indians and win the day inn honor to reveal the savagery underneath where logic is thrust aside. But at the same time, Ford still celebrates the valor in men in the old west, and there's something of a forerunner to the message of Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: when legend becomes fact, print (or film) the legend - albeit with some truth sprinkled here and there. Surely one of the better Ford and Wayne Westerns, and one another in the equally (or even more-so) rewarding collaboration with Fonda, here revealing a whole other side than a Lincoln or Tom Joad. 9.5/10
- Quinoa1984
- 8 set 2008
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- Budget
- 2.500.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 11.928 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 8 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1