Fort Apache

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Anywhere. Proudly presents... Screen Director's Playhouse, Production for Apache, Director John Ford, Stars, John Wayne Wardmark. The Hollywood screen directors present a footnote to Valor, Fort Apache, starring John Wayne and Ward Bond and introduced by the director of the film, John Ford.

Ever since the infant days of motion pictures, a kind of violent chain reaction has been exploding in Hollywood. The source of this rather awesome force is our guest screen director tonight. His explosions have taken the form of such brilliantly directed films as the informer, stage coach, How Green was My Valley, and tonight's story, Fort Apache.

Ladies and gentlemen, the director, Mr. John Ford. Thank you. I don't know what's called Fort Apache an explosion. If I were translating it into sound, I'd say it was a bugle called Brave and Distant in a Little Sad, an echo of the cavalry regiments that galloped to meet adventure on our western plains.

Now here's our film story for the first time on the air, starring John Wayne in his original role of Captain Yock and Ward Bond as Colonel Thursday, Fort Apache. This is the story of Fort Apache, of the regiment, the officers and men who mander.

How they lived, now some of them die. Fort Apache was the last frontier, tiny cavalry outpost in the heart of Indian infested country. My name is Captain Kirby York. I'd been through enough Indian campaigning to have a healthy respect for the Apache, both as a fighter and as a man.