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Duration: 2 hours, 3 minutes

The first of John Ford's cavalry trilogy, in which a commanding officer, bitter at his demotion after the Civil War, takes his resentment out on the men of Fort Apache, a remote outpost in the Arizona desert. He is determined to tighten up discipline, but eventually shows his ignorance of Indian behaviour when he leads his troops into a deadly confrontation.

Last on

Sat 4 Aug 2012 12:15 BBC Two

Credits

Capt Kirby York
John Wayne
Lt Col Owen Thursday
Henry Fonda
Lt Michael O'Rourke
John Agar
Philadelphia Thursday
Shirley Temple
Sergeant Beaufort
Pedro Armendariz
Captain Collingwood
George O'Brien
Sgt Maj Michael O'Rourke
Ward Bond
Sgt Festus Mulcahy
Victor McLaglen
Sgt Beaufort
Pedro Armendariz Jr
Mrs Collingwood
Anna Lee
Mrs O'Rourke
Irene Rich
Chief Cochise
Miguel Inclan
Johnny Reb
Jack Pennick
Director
John Ford
Producer
Merian C Cooper
Writer
Frank Nugent

Broadcasts

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