She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
(1949)
Maybe it's that's I'm old(er), but the middle Ford cavalry tale worked this time as well as or better than it ever has. This time Wayne is a captain on the verge of retirement, and he and the director capture perfectly the elegiac quality of the looming event. And Captain Brittle certainly speaks for Ford when a subordinate complains that the army won't be the same without him: "The army's always the same; the sun and moon change, but not the army." (Or something like that: IMDb really lets me down on quotes from these films.)
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