Fort Apache/The Marrying Kind

The title of John Ford's Fort Apache promises a rollicking Western adventure, a cowboys-and-Indians shoot 'em up with plenty of thrills. The film does, eventually, deliver on this promise to some extent, but it is not Ford's central concern in this picture. He's much more interested in the routines of military life, the daily ebb and flow of life at a small fort on the very edge of the frontier,