She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

It seems a pity then that with all this taking place in rich, luscious Technicolor, Ford felt it necessary to slow up these healthy activities with over-long intervals of adolescent love-making and tedious sentiment.

A western meller done in the best John Ford manner.

A film of both elegiac sentiment and occasionally over-eloquent sentimentality.

Bulwarked with gay and spirited music and keyed to the colors of the plains, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" is a dilly of a cavalry picture. Yeehooooo!

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is one of the most rousing films I have seen for years. It is also not without subtlety.

In She Wore a Yellow Ribbon [John Wayne] is nothing short of superb. It is a performance that should, in all right, be a challenger for the Academy award.

The film boasts one of Ford's more uncommon storylines and some of his boldest uses of color cinematography.

This earned an Oscar for Best Cinematography, though had a Best Makeup award existed back then, surely Don Cash would have been a contender for superb work that allowed a then-41-year-old Wayne to convincingly pass for someone a quarter-century older.

Classic Western with glorious color, great story telling and an anti-war point of view.

A film more notable for its gorgeous cinematography than for its plot.