When arrogant and stubborn Civil War hero Lt. Col. Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) arrives in Arizona with his daughter, Philadelphia (Shirley Temple), to assume command of the Fort Apache outpost, he ...
Legendary pioneers of the big-screen Western John Wayne and Ward Bond starred in a staggering 23 movies together, the most ...
Back in 1947, John Wayne filmed the first movie of what would become the Calvary Trilogy with his lifelong collaborative director John Ford. Fort Apache was shot in the filmmaker’s favoured Monument ...
Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...
In 1947, John Ford and John Wayne kicked off the first of their Calvary Trilogy movies in Fort Apache, which would be followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande. The Western was filmed in the ...