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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Wayne) [DVD] [1949]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5050582418040
Label : Universal Pictures Video
Manufacturer : Universal Pictures Video
Publisher : Universal Pictures Video
Release date : 2006-06-05
Title : She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Wayne) [DVD] [1949]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1949-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 99
Studio : Universal Pictures Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1949

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Amazon.co.uk Review
The second installment of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy (which also includes iFort Apache/i and iRio Grande/i), this meditative Western continues the director's fascination with history's obliteration of the past. It features one of John Wayne's more sensitive performances as Capt. Nathan Brittles, a stern yet sentimental war horse who has difficulty preparing for his impending military retirement. All things considered, he refuses to leave before fulfilling his obligation to the local Indian tribe. It's a film about honor and duty as well as loneliness and mortality. And Oscar-winner Winton C. Hoch beautifully photographs it in Remington-like Technicolor tones (you've never seen such stunning cloud-covered skies). The combination of melancholy and farce (Victor McLaglen makes a perfect court jester) evokes comparisons to Shakespeare. Best of all, the scene in which Wayne fights back tears when receiving a gold watch from his troops is unforgettably bittersweet. If you view the whole trilogy, it actually makes sense to save this for last. --iBill Desowitz/i

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-07-01 rating:

great film, muddy print
I've seen this film several times on the big screen in Ford retrospectives and the "Remington style" of the photography is awesomely beautiful. But this Turner reconstruction is a muddy print that badly serves the original -- hence only 3 stars. How come a minor Ford/Wayne collaboration 3 Godfathers is available in a superb DVD version and this film and The Quiet Man (both cinematography Oscar winners) are only available in poor prints?

review by: date: 2009-06-27 rating:

No comparison with the quality of The Searchers
First the good news: John Ford's Monument Valley, Arizona landscapes look as good as ever they do in his other films set there, glowing (almost literally in the case of the sunset scenes) in Technicolour. Ford's particular wish (and against the vehement protests of his cinematographer) to film in stormy weather is a visual bonus, too. br / br /But the fine landscapes also serve to emphasize the deficiencies of narrative and script, and the paucity of dramatic tightness in the film's other elements. The story has been stitched together from two western tales by JW Bellah, and this must account for the episodic nature of the narrative. John Wayne's mission to escort two women through Injun country to the nearest stagecoach stop in the aftermath of Custer's Last Stand is no big deal, and could not usefully engage anyone's attention for a full 100 minutes. Ford beefs his storyline up with his theme of the passing of time, people being consigned to the knacker's yard (cue much play with JW's new presentation watch during his somewhat drawn-out retirement after donkeys' years of honourable cavalry service) and new starts - though the plot device at the very end, which I won't spoil, rather negates the general tone of regret and disillusionment. This theme cannot paper over the narrative cracks, and was actually better handled in Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1967). We are left with a picture that is short on action and long on fairly inconsequential talk. br / br /What really sinks the movie, though, is its sentimentality. From the overblown folksy musical score to the running joke about a secret whisky bottle hidden by Victor McLaglen's cringingly awful sergeant, and the two young cavalrymen fighting over Joanne Dru, the mawkishness is laid on with a trowel. John Wayne struggles hard to rise with dignity above it, and of course his great screen presence counts for a great deal, but even he is pulled under by the succession of cloying moments and by the blank presence of his young lieutenant John Agar (no actor, as his appearance in trashy 50s sci-fi like Attack of the Puppet People confirmed). Though she is sadly underused, and especially in scenes with JW, Joanne Dru has fire in her belly, as she had in her two fine pictures before this, Red River and All the King's Men. I can't think why her career in the movies never really took off. Perhaps when the casting couch was wheeled out she coughed and headed for the hills. br / br /John Ford's films are, in my view, very variable in quality. This is nowhere near the level of the great The Searchers, and also clearly inferior to My Darling Clementine, itself no masterpiece. br /

review by: date: 2009-06-01 rating:

She wore a Yellow Ribbon - Reveiw
She wore a Yellow Ribbon is a classic western. Delivery of this DVD was quick.

review by: date: 2009-03-10 rating:

John Wayne - A Sensitive Character Actor?!
Yes, it has to be said (as Ford did, on one occasion - "I didn't know the SOB could act!") John Wayne carries this film on his characterisation of Capt. Nathan Brittles, preparing reluctantly for his retirement from the cavalry. br /It's beautifully shot (in technicolour, and won an Oscar for that) and the story around Wayne's character holds together believably and well. br /It feels "of its time" a bit, but still a highly watchable classic.

review by: huext date: 2009-01-05 rating:

great
Great Story,escapist viewing,nostalgia for a lost youth. br / They just can't/don't make fims like this now. br / I cannot recommend it enough. br /

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