Fort Apache

When Capt.

York talks to Lt.

Thursday at the first time, he tries to take off the glove from his left hand.

The next shot shows him holding the glove off.

When Lt.

Michael O'Rourke and Philadelphia goes riding, they stop for while with a high and peaked boulder on their left-hand side.

In the next shot, when they renew to ride, seen away from the other side, the boulder has changed to a large and low one.

During the battle, when York rides toward Thursday, his saber hangs from the saddle.

But when he dismounts the saber is held in his waist.

When Capt Yorke reports to Col Thursday at the NCO's dance, he says that Cochise and his people have crossed the Rio Bravo back to American soil.

This movie takes place in Arizona, there is no river separating Arizona from Mexico.

The Rio Bravo (Rio Grande in US) separates only Texas and no other states from Mexico.

When Col.

Thursday leads a company "at a striking distance" from a repair patrol lead by Lt.

O'Rourke.

Mulcahey is part of O'Rourke's patrol, but when the action shifts to show Col.

Thursday's company in a saber charge against the Apache's there is a clear shot of Sgt.

Mulcahey riding next to the flag bearer with his saber drawn.

Notethis scene was duplicated from Col.

Thursday's final charge against Cochise.

Approximately one hour into the film, when Colonel Thursday and Captain York prepare to leave the fort to protect the wagon-team led by 2nd Lieutenant Michael O'Rourke from an anticipated Indian attack, the class-conscious Thursday criticizes York's soldiers for their sloppy uniforms, pointedly telling York himself that York's hat should be creased "like a fedora.

" The action of "Fort Apache" takes place during the lifetime of Cochise, the famous Apache chief who died in 1874.

The word "fedora" does not enter the language until 1882, when the hat worn by Sarah Bernhardt as Princess Fedora in Victorien Sardou's hit play "Fedora" became the rage of the fashion world.

Thursday's use of the word is an anachronism.

During the Grand March at the dance, the actors perform the first round (couples) leading with the dance-favored right foot.

When they double up to 4s and then 8s, they are leading with the military-favored left foot.

During the dance in the Sergeants Mess, when the dancers are coming round in front of the camera in fours, one of the dancers curtsies, but none of the other women do this.

They had already done so in a previous shot and obviously the woman must have been confused.

When the new recruits are assembled for the second time (in uniform) the two closest to the camera appear to be wearing denim jeans or Levis.

Levis were not available to the U.

Cavalry at the time of the film's period in history.

Throughout the movie a 35-star U.

flag is carried (5 rows of 7 stars), which was actually used July 4, 1863-July 3, 1865.

The canyon that Captain York and Sergeant Beaufort ride into to meet with Cochise is supposed to be in Mexico.

It is the same canyon that Col.

Thursday and his command ride to defeat in the United States.

When Collingwood is replaced by Lt Gates as adjutant, Gates begins to take off his saber.

Film cuts to Henry Fonda and back to Gates already seated at the desk.

When Captain York and Beaufort are riding to meet Cochise they pass a spot on the Colorado River which is on the northern border with Utah not the southern border of Arizona with Mexico.

After Capt.

York rides out to rescue Thursday, Thursday asks for and is given York's saber.

When we next see York on the ridge with the supplies watching the attack his saber is in his scabbard.

(at around 1h) The camera pans to the left and to the lower left hand corner coming out from behind the Apache, in the distance (about 1/4 mile), you can see a vehicle racing down the road.

As the regiment is heading out, we see Philadelphia standing to the far left of Mrs.

Collingwood and Mrs.

O'Rourke.

Soon after, she is on the far right, which indicates she moved.

However, right after the close-up of her standing on the far right, the next immediate long-shot has her standing on the far left again.

The first film in Ford's cavalry trilogy was an instant Western classic, with Henry Fonda as a bitter commander who feels exiled at remote Fort Apache, and John Wayne as a desert battle trained officer who treats Chief Cochise with the respect he deserves. Historically cited as one of the first films to treat Native Americans with respect, Ford cast hundreds of Navajo to play Apache parts, and ultimately the plot portrays the ensuing massacre after Fonda misjudges and underestimates the Apache forces.

THIS is the first of what many consider to be an outstanding Trilogy of Movies about the United States Cavalry in the Old West of American Frontier in those years of settlement and expansion that followed the American Civil War.FORT APACHE (Argosy Pictures/RKO Radio Pictures, 1948) is possibly the one which is most closely tied to real happenings.

John Wayne plays Capt. Kirby York, who is stationed at Fort Apache, which has had problems with renegade Chief Cochise leading his men off their reservation, and raiding outposts.

I agree with cstotlar-1 (Uncomfortable Mismatch, cstotlar-1, 19 June 2012) and ccthemovieman-1 (Not Deserving Of The High Marks It Gets, ccthemovieman-1, 13 March 2007) that Fort Apache is disappointing. I disagree with James Hitchcock (Fine, if dated, drama of men at war, James Hitchcock from Tunbridge Wells, England, 24 July 2010) that it portrays the Indians sympathetically.

Certainly, I think, the best of the John Ford US cavalry trilogies this one. Henry Fonda is cracking as the honourable, but out of his depth, by-the-book colonel sent to run a ramshackle army post just as the Apache are on the rise again.

"Fort Apache" was the first of Director John Ford's so called Cavalry Trilogy starring John Wayne and the Ford stock company. In the cast ks 30's darling Shirley Temple now a full grown adult.

Having loved the Ford/Wayne collaboration The Searchers and in general become more positive towards "classic movies" since I last saw Fort Apache, I was hoping it would have something of a renaissance now, but no, it's still pretty lame. It's not downright bad, just very…not interesting in any way.

I don't get the love for this movie and the high ratings.Half the movie is boring filler.

Fort Apache is another great John Wayne classic, this movies sees The Duke as Captain Kirby York, a captain expected to take over command of Fort Apache, an isolated U.S.