YMMV / She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

• Award Snub: John Wayne felt that he should've gotten an Academy Award nomination for this film instead of Sands of Iwo Jima.
• Awesome Music: Richard Hageman's instrumentals of "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" and "The Girl I Left Behind Me" make for one heck of a main theme.
• Fair for Its Day: Like Fort Apache, this film offers a far more nuanced depiction of the Old West than it's often given credit for. Brittles is very sympathetic towards the Sioux, going out of his way to negotiate peace with Pony-That-Walks and avoid a violent confrontation with the renegades, and the film depicts them as rightly aggrieved by broken treaties and corrupt Indian agents.
• He Really Can Act: John Wayne gives one of his best performances as a man twenty years his senior. He actually shows depth and vulnerability here.
• Tear Jerker: When Capt. Brittles goes to inspect his troop for the last time due to his retirement and all the men are in their best uniforms and when they present him with the watch that they all chipped in to buy and Brittles puts on his glasses to read the sentiment "Lest We Forget."

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