Fort Apache (film)

Fort Apache adalah sebuah film koboi Amerika Serikat tahun 1948 yang disutradarai oleh John Ford dan dibintangi oleh John Wayne dan Henry Fonda. Film tersebut adalah film pertama dari "trilogi kavaleri" buatan sutradara tersebut dan disusul oleh She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) dan Rio Grande (1950), keduanya juga dibintangi oleh Wayne. Skenarionya terinspirasi oleh cerpen James Warner Bellah "Massacre" (1947).

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Bacaan tambahan 
 In his contemporary review, Crowther writes "apparent in this picture, for those who care to look, is a new and maturing viewpoint upon one aspect of the American Indian wars. For here it is not the "heathen Indian" who is the "heavy" of the piece but a hard-bitten Army colonel, blind through ignorance and a passion for revenge. And ranged alongside this willful white man is a venal government agent who exploits the innocence of the Indians while supposedly acting as their friend."
 Recent, highly favorable review of "John Ford's superb black-and white elegiac Western".
 Schwartz summarizes the film as "a reworking of the Custer myth, in a film that over sentimentalizes Army life and chivalry."

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Film tahun 1948
Film Amerika Serikat