(PG)
The first of John Ford's trilogy of Cavalry Movies set during America's struggle against the Apache Indian.
Henry Fonda plays the stubborn Colonel Thursday whose Textbook methods of warfare appear as pure as suicide to everyone but him. John Wayne stars as Captain York, a soldier experienced in Apache warfare, from whom Thursday will take no advice.
The film builds to the inevitable confrontation with the Apache masses, and Thursday leads his men into the Lion's Den. Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), Lt. Col. Own Thursday (Henry Fonda).
Great story, escapist viewing, nostalgia for a lost youth.
They just don't make movies like this now.
I cannot recommend it enough.
Henry Fonda plays the stubborn Colonel Thursday whose Textbook methods of warfare appear as pure as suicide to everyone but him. John Wayne stars as Captain York, a soldier experienced in Apache warfare, from whom Thursday will take no advice.
The film builds to the inevitable confrontation with the Apache masses, and Thursday leads his men into the Lion's Den. Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), Lt. Col. Own Thursday (Henry Fonda).
Great story, escapist viewing, nostalgia for a lost youth.
They just don't make movies like this now.
I cannot recommend it enough.
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