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In 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' (1949), dutiful cavalry officer Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) is reluctant to retire in the face of an imminent Native American uprising. His last official task is to escort the commander's wife and her niece to the Sudrow's Wells stagecoach stop, but it proves to be a journey fraught with danger.
7.0 (18K) Rate. A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years. Director John Ford Stars John Wayne Maureen O'Hara Ben Johnson.
3 de dic. de 2020 · John Ford was at the height of his powers when he made this film. This is one of the greatest films he ever made. It has all the elements one expect from a John Ford Western And as in a lot of Ford Westerns, there is a strong stream of comedy flowing through out “Fort Apache”; performed by his regular players and embellished by subplots involving family, as well as the camaraderie between ...
The second of John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in Technicolor. In an Oscar-calibre performance, 42-year old John Wayne plays sixtyish Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days before his compulsory retirement, Brittles must face the possibility of a full-scale attack from ...
Fort Apache, American western film, released in 1948, that was the first, and widely considered the best, of director John Ford’s “cavalry trilogy.” Inspired by the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), the film was unique for its time in portraying Native Americans sympathetically as victims of the U.S. government.. Lieut. Col. Owen Thursday (played by Henry Fonda and modeled on George ...
14 de jul. de 2014 · Fort Apache was the first film of what would become known as director John Ford’s “Cavalry Trilogy.”. Though Ford worked within the same historical period in other films, too, these three movies — Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) — were loosely tied together thanks not only their shared ...
Fort Apache was the first film in what critics now refer to as director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy." The second film, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , was produced by Argosy Pictures and distributed by RKO in 1949, and the third, Rio Grande , was also produced by Argosy, but released by Republic Pictures in 1950 (see entries below).
