Fort Apache

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.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 20 Maj, 2007