Fort Apache
Screening on Film
Directed by John Ford.
With Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple.
US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 127 min.
With Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple.
US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 127 min.
Ford’s loose dramatization of the Custer story, with Henry Fonda cast as a sullen, stubborn martinet of a cavalry commander, who is willing to sacrifice his men in battle against the Apache. Ford: "Custer a hero? Well, he wasn’t. Not that he was a stupid man—but he did a stupid job that day."
