Lobby Card: FORT APACHE-1948-JOHN WAYNE, HENRY FONDA

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VINTAGE MOVIE LOBBY CARD 11" x 14" Fort Apache John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond & others. Directed by the legendary John Ford 1948 NSS 48 / 833 Card # 4 Card is part of a collection of 5. to see and bid on them all! A great American film , 20 April 2003 Author: cowboy7642 from Alexandria, VA Director John Ford's first entry in his "cavalry trilogy" is this excellent film about life on a military outpost far from the glamorous theaters of the Indian Wars in the American west. The film is about character development of the officers and enlisted men on the post, family relationships and the class distinctions among the military social order. Henry Fonda dominates this film with a wonderful interpretation of a bitter, unhappy colonel who feels he has been shunted aside by an ungrateful military hierarchy to an isolated desert outpost to fight Apaches, an assignment he considers beneath him. John Wayne's Capt. Kirby York gives the film just the right balance between the two men who have very different viewpoints about fighting Apaches and respect for their fierce adversaries. The concerns of the wives of officers and enlisted men are also explored in the daily routine at Fort Apache and their fears are touchingly portrayed as their men march at dawn one morning to do battle with the Apaches read more