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Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, Thursday attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates. Movie. November 15, 1950. 1h 45m. $0. John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on the Cavalry Trilogy movies from 1948 to 1950.
They call them The Cavalry Trilogy. Fort Apache, made in 1948, was the first of these movies (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande would complete the series.) It should be noted that it was others who made this designation. Ford and Wayne didn't necessarily see the movies as connected by anything other than the fact that they all took place ...
9 de dic. de 2017 · In the upper left hand corner along with John Ford's name, as producer, is his friend and co-producer Merian C. Cooper. IF the name Merian C. Cooper isn't familiar to my reader. Let me mention one motion picture he made in 1933 entitled "King Kong". The two men would co-produce the other two films in Ford's Cavalry trilogy.
Rio Grande: Directed by John Ford. With John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.. A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.
13 de feb. de 2010 · Directed by John Ford. With John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple. US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 127 min. Print source: Library of Congress. The first and darkest entry in Ford’s “Cavalry Trilogy,” Fort Apache paints a stark and mesmerizing portrait of an isolated military outpost on the furthest edge of the Western frontier in the ...
Trilogy as Triptych: John Ford’s Cavalry Films 59 “is no more significant than that between ‘York’ and ‘Yorke’: if Ford had meant to differentiate the characters more strongly, he could have changed the name, as he did in casting Wayne as ‘Nathan Brittles’ in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” (724–25). And so he could.
The study analyzes John Ford’s films Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950) for their historical portrayal of the frontier cavalry. Ford is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost chroniclers and mythmakers. His films comprise a significant body of film and cultural history, reflect his values and attitudes, and offer conflicts between historical ...
