She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 1949 trailer from Warner Bros

Having starred in the first outing of John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy in 1948’s Fort Apache, John Wayne returned to lead the director’s follow-up in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon a year later.

The movie cost $1.6 million, making it one of the most expensive Westerns in Hollywood history at that point.

Named after the US military song of the same name, the film once again found the two Johns shooting together in the iconic Monument Valley along the Arizona-Utah state line.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, which is on BBC Two this Saturday afternoon, had Wayne portray Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles on his last job before retirement.

In the movie, the mission of the old soldier was to soothe tensions between the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians f

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