
After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece, the pretty Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated for their own safety. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company, Lt. Flint Cohill and 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell... (Full plot summary below)
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After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece, the pretty Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated for their own safety. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company, Lt. Flint Cohill and 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.
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| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThe second film in John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy" features John Wayne at his best and boasts some incredible, Oscar-winning Technicolor photography of Monument Valley. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonFirst and most obviously one of the most flat-out gorgeous movies ever filmed. |
| VarietyVariety StaffA western meller done in the best John Ford manner. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...a lot of people's favorite Western, and it's good to see it in all its Technicolor glory on DVD. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrIn Ford’s superbly creative hands, it becomes perhaps the only avant-garde film ever made about the importance of tradition. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThe second of John Ford's cavalry trilogy is well acted by John Wayne and well shot by Winton C. Hoch, who an Oscar for color cinematography. |
| The Observer (UK)Keith PhippsFort Apache and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon both dwell on the problems of leadership, balancing out a respect for classic American frontier virtues with a less generous assessment of how those virtues were applied. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThis 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. |
| Time OutDerek AdamsA film of both elegiac sentiment and occasionally over-eloquent sentimentality. |
| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumDefinitely in top five of all-time Ford/Wayne westerns. Gorgeous color too. |