Customer Reviews
Oscarized photography... why not the rest eludes me! - By: Alejo, 12 Oct 2007 
This is not going to be a diatribe against the puzzling nominations & awards of the academy...
Just let me say John Wayne & John Ford deserved it many times over.
Once this out of my chest... the second (of the "Cavalry Trilogy" & the only one in color) film dedicated to the US cavalry (which in fact is a recurrent theme of the director... see my review of "Fort Apache")...
This time the main (and secondary played by Victor McLaglen) characters are both waiting for retirement for the Army... & have to do a last patrol... from there on... duty, decency & common sense take care of the script. In paralllel runs a love affair between the first lieutenant & the commandant niece which is also pretended by the second lieutenant... son of a general & rich family... guess who got the girl!...
I do not know how many times I've seen it, in TV, cable TV, Video, DVD... you name it... even every time it is scheduled in some chain I falll for it...
100% Ford/Wayne.
A must see sometime... & do not forget a great Ben Johnson riding like a devil... (scouting yes but a sergeant in the US cavalry! & ex-officer of the Confederate Army... but I am not going to spoil alll of the history).
Not until the release of THE HORSE SOLDIERS we will be treated again to a full color version about the US cavalry (in fact probably his greatest cavalry film... & the ACW "reference film" for decades up to GLORY & GETTYSBURG).
ADB
PS: The use of images of this film on that piece of futuristic trash by Kevin Costner (THE POSTMAN or something like that...) would have had to be forbidden for whoever had the rights...
