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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Wayne) [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) [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

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The second installment of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy (which also includes Fort Apache and Rio Grande), 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. --Bill Desowitz

Customer reviews

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

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

review by: ADB date: 2007-10-12 rating:

Oscarized photography... why not the rest eludes me!
This is not going to be a diatribe against the puzzling nominations and awards of the academy...
Just let me say John Wayne and John Ford deserved it many times over.
Once this out of my chest... the second (of the "Cavalry Trilogy" and the only one in color) film dedicated to the US cavalry (which in fact is a recurrent theme of the director... see my review of "Fort Apache")...
This time the main (and secondary played by Victor McLaglen) characters are both waiting for retirement for the Army... and have to do a last patrol... from there on... duty, decency and common sense take care of the script. In parallel runs a love affair between the first lieutenant and the commandant niece which is also pretended by the second lieutenant... son of a general and rich family... guess who got the girl!...
I do not know how many times I've seen it, in TV, cable TV, Video, DVD... you name it... even every time it is scheduled in some chain I fall for it...
100% Ford/Wayne.
A must see sometime... and do not forget a great Ben Johnson riding like a devil... (scouting yes but a sergeant in the US cavalry! and ex-officer of the Confederate Army... but I am not going to spoil all of the history).
Not until the release of THE HORSE SOLDIERS we will be treated again to a full color version about the US cavalry (in fact probably his greatest cavalry film... and the ACW "reference film" for decades up to GLORY and GETTYSBURG).

ADB

PS: The use of images of this film on that piece of futuristic trash by Kevin Costner (THE POSTMAN or something like that...) would have had to be forbidden for whoever had the rights...

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