John Wayne She Wore a Yellow Ribbon VHS Classic RKO Home Video

This listing is for John Wayne She Wore a Yellow Ribbon VHS Classic RKO Home Video.

Actors: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.
Directors: John Ford
Writers: Frank S. Nugent, James Warner Bellah, Laurence Stallings
Producers: John Ford, Lowell J. Farrell, Merian C. Cooper
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Rated: Unrated - Not Rated
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: RKO Home Video
VHS Release 1985
Run Time: 93 minutes

The story of a U.S. Calvalry captian's last days in service on the western frontier in 1876. 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.

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