She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is essential John Ford, his personal favorite among his loose “cavalry trilogy” as well as the all-time favorite film of conservatives from Douglas MacArthur to Barry Goldwater. As history, this tale of the last Indian campaign of a soon-to-retire cavalry captain (John Wayne) is wildly sentimental. But Ford's interest lies in using military virtues to argue for an ideal of community and personal responsibility. Whatever one might think of that project, no one approached it with Ford's depth. The film that Lindsay Anderson called “one continual visual delight” will be seen tonight in the UCLA Film and Television Archive print, renowned among archivists as among the greatest successes in preserving nitrate Technicolor. Winton Hoch's Oscar-winning cinematography captures the Monument Valley landscape in a Remingtonesque mode and autumnal, twilit hues that match the spirit of a West that is already, in 1876, mourned as passing memory.