She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Country: US
Technical: col 103m
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick
Synopsis:
The final week of service in the career of a cavalry officer sees some Indian trouble and the settling of the affairs of his men.
Review:
The most endearing of Ford's cavalry trilogy, and the most elegiac, starts as it means to go on, with a broadly humorous and humane picture of frontier fort life. Elsewhere there are perfunctory dramatic trimmings and strainings after mythic resonance, with some gloriously colourful and stormy images of Monument Valley, but essentially this is a sentimental lionization of Colonel Brittles and the army life he represents. Of iconographic interest are the number of shots of galloping or trotting horsemen Ford contrives to fit into two hours, with hardly a shot being fired, and the space accorded Confederate sentiments and whisky drinking. Ideologically speaking, of course, the film, like the whole 7th Cavalry sub-genre, is charmingly unpalatable now, but rarely, if ever, has a Western drawn together a more affectionate and economically drawn set of character performances.
Country: US
Technical: col 103m
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick
Synopsis:
The final week of service in the career of a cavalry officer sees some Indian trouble and the settling of the affairs of his men.
Review:
The most endearing of Ford's cavalry trilogy, and the most elegiac, starts as it means to go on, with a broadly humorous and humane picture of frontier fort life. Elsewhere there are perfunctory dramatic trimmings and strainings after mythic resonance, with some gloriously colourful and stormy images of Monument Valley, but essentially this is a sentimental lionization of Colonel Brittles and the army life he represents. Of iconographic interest are the number of shots of galloping or trotting horsemen Ford contrives to fit into two hours, with hardly a shot being fired, and the space accorded Confederate sentiments and whisky drinking. Ideologically speaking, of course, the film, like the whole 7th Cavalry sub-genre, is charmingly unpalatable now, but rarely, if ever, has a Western drawn together a more affectionate and economically drawn set of character performances.
Country: US
Technical: col 103m
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick
Synopsis:
The final week of service in the career of a cavalry officer sees some Indian trouble and the settling of the affairs of his men.
Review:
The most endearing of Ford's cavalry trilogy, and the most elegiac, starts as it means to go on, with a broadly humorous and humane picture of frontier fort life. Elsewhere there are perfunctory dramatic trimmings and strainings after mythic resonance, with some gloriously colourful and stormy images of Monument Valley, but essentially this is a sentimental lionization of Colonel Brittles and the army life he represents. Of iconographic interest are the number of shots of galloping or trotting horsemen Ford contrives to fit into two hours, with hardly a shot being fired, and the space accorded Confederate sentiments and whisky drinking. Ideologically speaking, of course, the film, like the whole 7th Cavalry sub-genre, is charmingly unpalatable now, but rarely, if ever, has a Western drawn together a more affectionate and economically drawn set of character performances.