She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

“John Ford's new and finest picture of the fighting cavalry!”

Word has come that a massive Indian attack is gathering, and no one can say where it will fall. Captain Nathan Brittles (John Wayne), days from retirement, takes out one last patrol to head it off, with women who must be evacuated slowing the column. John Ford films the cavalry as a way of life that Brittles knows is ending, and the film treats his leaving as the real subject.