On this date in 1949, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon premiered in Kansas City, Kansas. The technicolor Western film, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, is the second film in Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy," along with Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950). With a budget of $1.6 million, the film was one of the most expensive Westerns made at the time and was a major hit for RKO. The film was stunningly shot on location in Monument Valley utilizing large areas of the Navajo reservation along the Arizona-Utah state border. Cinematographer Winton C. Hoch based much of the film's imagery on the paintings and sculptures of Frederic Remington. Hoch won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color in 1950. The film's title takes its name from a popular US military song that is used to keep marching cadence.
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