Product: Fort Apache (Color Enhanced) [VHS] (1948)
Rating: 5.0
Fort Apache -- It exceeds "The Searchers"
This is the gem of the Wayne/Ford Calvary trilogy, and I am delighted it's finally coming to DVD.But a question: Can anyone heal me of the following misjudgment?Try as I may, I cannot shake off my estimation of Fort Apache as a more complete and substantially higher overall cinematic accomplishment in comparison with The Searchers.Partly it may consist in the fact that The Searchers is a great movie to watch -- and watch again -- but Fort Apache somehow succeeds as a more nearly perfect, complete and wholly rounded experience. The Searchers shines due to its externals, but Apache proceeds and then later culminates in a richer, deeper and more satisfying way, and the whole movie experience resonates with you in a way that The Searchers does not quite achieve.