{"product_id":"fort-apache","title":"Fort Apache","description":"The first film of John Fords celebrated Cavalry Trilogy  FORT APACHE mirrors the effects of the directors wartime experience on his attitude toward military command. Lt. Col. Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda)  a West Point-trained Civil War veteran  is sent to command the remote Arizona outpost of Fort Apache. An arrogant  by-the-book officer  hes annoyed at having drawn such an ignominious assignment. Despite the warnings of veteran Indian-fighter Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne)  he dismisses the notion that a group of savages could possibly be of concern to one possessing his military prowess. After Thursdays daughter  Philadelphia (Shirley Temple)  and young Lt. Michael ORourke (Ward Bond) find the bodies of some mutilated soldiers  its discovered that Indian agent Silas Meacham (Grant Withers) has been stirring the Apaches up by selling them liquor illegally. York persuades Thursday to withhold all action until he can arrange peace talks with Cochise (Miguel Inclan)  but when the Indian chief shows up for the palaver he finds that the blindly willful army commander has called out the entire regiment for an attack on the Apache force. A tragic  absorbingly complex study of the problems of command  FORT APACHE benefits enormously from Fondas superb performance and the exhaustive research of screenwriter Frank S. Nugent into Apache culture and the army outposts of the era.\r\n","brand":"Not Assigned","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54302904942977,"sku":"8241795","price":11.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/9050\/5986\/files\/1241330.jpg?v=1747237906","url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/fort-apache","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}