Fort Apache adalah sebuah film koboi Amerika Serikat tahun 1948 yang disutradarai oleh John Ford dan dibintangi oleh John Wayne dan Henry Fonda.[4][5] 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).
Referensi
↑"Fort Apache: Detail View". American Film Institute. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2018-09-24. Diakses tanggal May 10, 2014.
↑Brady, Thomas F. "U-I BOYS 2 STORIES TO BE MADE FILMS: Studio Acquires 'Beauty and Beast' and 'Velvet Fleece' -- Kanin to Produce Former", New York Times (September 19, 1947: 27)
Crowther, Bosley (June 25, 1948). "Fort Apache, RKO Western, With Fonda, Wayne and Temple, Bill at Capitol". The New York Times. 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."
Levy, Emanuel. "Fort Apache (1948)". Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2022-09-06. Diakses tanggal 2018-09-24. Recent, highly favorable review of "John Ford's superb black-and white elegiac Western".
Schwartz, Dennis (August 15, 2001). "Fort Apache". Ozus' World. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2018-04-12. Diakses tanggal 2018-09-24. Schwartz summarizes the film as "a reworking of the Custer myth, in a film that over sentimentalizes Army life and chivalry."
