She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Director: John Ford
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The centrepiece of Ford's cavalry trilogy (flanked by Fort Apache and Rio Grande) and a film of both elegiac sentiment and occasionally over-eloquent sentimentality, structured around a series of ritual incidents rather than narrative conflicts. Wayne's captain and McLaglen's sergeant face up to impending retirement from a force whose role and self-awareness is changing in the wake of Custer's defeat; America, however, still has to be willed into existence and unity. Winton Hoch's Technicolor cinematography of Monument Valley (modelled at Ford's insistence on Remington pictorialism) won him an Oscar.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: John Ford
Producer: John Ford, Merian C Cooper
Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, George O'Brien, Arthur Shields full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 103 mins
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