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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

(1949)

This will never be as good as Fort Apache--there Wayne had Fonda to play off of; here his biggest rival is an otherworldly gorgeous Monument Valley. This is also a little less complex in its treatment of the Indian wars: Fonda's Custer-like colonel in Fort Apache is noble but vainglorious; in this film, nothing suggests that the recently deceased Custer was anything but an iconic hero.

On the other hand, the love story is marginally less sappy.