She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) starring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson. Directed by John Ford. In the 1870s, right after Custer's Last Stand, Captain Nathan Brittles (Wayne) leads a troop of soldiers against Indians out west. Judging his last mission a failure, Brittles retires from the cavalry and heads out west towards California. But the Indians are still on the warpath and Brittles ends up on one last mission with the cavalry. This is kind of a sentimental Western, with very little actual fighting between Indians and cavalry. It's mostly about the relationships among the men of the cavalry -- and one particular young woman (Dru). I found it pretty entertaining for the most part, but I'm not one to go all soppy about John Wayne. The disc has good subtitles, as well as closed captions. Grade: B