"John Ford'striumphant return to the Western genre after thirteen years. Also hisfirst expedition into Monument Valley, a dream landscape he would fixforever as his own. Also a motion picture with hardly a single falsestep nor unnecessary moment. Also the film in which John Wayne defineshimself for all time. And how much did Ford actually suspect, given thestartling zoom into our first shot of the Ringo Kid, spinning thatrifle, stepping into history? 'Here he is, folks,' says Ford, fortyyears ago, with a zoom you'd need a time machine to place as perfectlyunless you were John Ford to begin with...." Michael Goodwin