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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949

John Ford

John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson ...

7.5

7,798

Western Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

	Author	Review
United States	TV Guide	"The second film in John Ford's 'Cavalry Trilogy' features John Wayne at his best and boasts some incredible, Oscar-winning Technicolor photography of Monument Valley"	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"A beautifully presented tale of love, honor and duty from a master film-maker (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"In Ford’s superbly creative hands, it becomes perhaps the only avant-garde film ever made about the importance of tradition."	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Ford has superbly achieved a vast and composite illustration of all the legends of the frontier cavalryman"	POS
United Kingdom	Rachel Ward Telegraph	"It looks amazing, and the complex treatment of the issues marks it out from the shoot-'em-up standards of the time"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Like Ford's other large-scale, elegiac Westerns of this period, it's not a plain action movie but a pictorial film with slow spots and great set pieces."	POS

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