Posted on 03/19/2019 11:03:34 AM PDT by simpson96
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" - Story Beginning/The Chase Scene
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. The Academy Award-winning film was the second of Ford's Cavalry trilogy films (the other two being Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950)). With a budget of $1.6 million, the film was one of the most expensive Westerns made up to that time. It was a major hit for RKO. The film takes its name from "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", a popular US military song that is used to keep marching cadence.
The film was shot on location in Monument Valley utilizing large areas of the Navajo reservation along the Arizona-Utah state border. Ford and cinematographer Winton Hoch based much of the film's imagery on the paintings and sculptures of Frederic Remington. The film won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color.
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One of my all time favorite movies. The cinematography was awesome.
Is it the one where Ben Johnson, carrying the message, is being chased by the Indians? Jumps the gap and leaves them with their %icks in their hand.
Ben Johnson was quite the horseman.
Classic Movie Bookmark.
Gonna see if I can watch all three in order over the weekend.
Ben Johnson, yes. Another one was Doug McClure. What a great horseman! Not in this movie and not meaning to hijack a thread but I don’t think I have ever seen a rider seat a moving horse as McClure did. Dead at 59 from lung cancer..
“Sgt Tyree I’m ordering you to volunteer again.”
-CAPT. Nathan Brittles
When my brother was a young lad, that was his favorite movie. Whenever we played “charades”, he would always use that title, to try to stump us. He did it so much that it got to the point that as soon as he stood up and gave the first clue, somebody would blurt out: “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.” Then he’d get mad and stomp off.
Glenn Ford was another. He managed Will Rogers stable for a while.
When we finally got The Cable and network TV came to our town, the first day of broadcasting was “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” run constantly all day.
The legend goes that a thunderstorm was rolling in and Hoch began packing up his gear. Ford ordered him to stop and to keep shooting. There was a major argument, which ended with Hoch shooting the scene, but writing "SHOT UNDER PROTEST" on the slates. But the shot that he got, of a small line of troopers under a giant ominous sky with lightning streaking, is probably the single thing that won him the Oscar. Hoch later denied it, and Harry Carey Jr.'s story was that Hoch was only worried about having enough light to get anything useable. But like another John Wayne movie says, "Print the legend."
Great post!
My problem with “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” is the mess they made of actual history. The Pony Express had nothing to do with Custer and the desert southwest and the Apaches had nothing to do with the northern Cheyenne, Arapaho and Sioux. In his later life John Ford regretted how he “printed the legend and not the facts.” In this one he was at his worst making up history out of nothing.
Glen Ford was great in SHEEPMAN.
Not a problem for me. It was entertainment, not a history lesson.
Ben Johnson was born on a ranch in what is now the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma. His father was also a trick rider.
That’s Ben to the left of The Duke. Impossible to think he was ever that young looking.
So handsome. He gave Tom Selleck a run for his looking-pretty money when they were making those Westerns for TNT.
When the Shadow Riders and The Sacketts are on I practically have to keep a difibrilator nearby for Mrs. Slim... I mean, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, and Ben Johnson...
Ben Johnson was a lot older, but he was having so much fun that he was just a ray of sunshine amidst the frontier angst.
Grizzled, but sly.
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