RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: October 22, 1949 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
100
Chicago TribuneStaff (Not Credited)
The second, and finest, of Ford's cavalry trilogy. [17 Aug 2007, p.C7]
100
As splendid as John Wayne is in these films, the elegiac She Wore a Yellow Ribbon provides him with one of his finest roles. [19 May 1996, p.72]
90
This, you feel, is really a story with roots in the nation, not just a fiction snatched out of the busy air. [16 Apr 1950, p.6]
80
The TelegraphRachel Ward
It looks amazing, and the complex treatment of the issues marks it out from the shoot-'em-up standards of the time. [29 Jun 2013, p.32]
70
Like Ford's other large-scale, elegiac Westerns of this period, it's not a plain action movie but a pictorial film with slow spots and great set pieces.