She Wore a Yellow Ribbon News

The display of yellow ribbons in remembrance of friends and family serving far away goes back hundreds of years.

McMillan Memorial Library , 490 E. Grand Ave., will show the movie, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," followed by discussion, at 1:30 p.m. The movie is part of the library's classic westerns with discussion series.

John Ford established Arizona's Monument Valley as the western movie outdoor set in his John Wayne triology, Fort Apace, Rio Grande, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

ENLARGE Red Cliffs Lodge, about 14 miles outside of Moab, Utah. Ray Guziak Head west on I-70 towards Utah.

One of the more pleasant perks of this gig is occasionally encountering a film you've heard about for ages but never seen, and then discovering that it lives up to its rep.

It's not always easy being a towering figure in Hollywood -- just ask 6-foot-6 veteran character actor Ken Howard.

Irish-American filmmaker John Ford died 35 years ago at the age of 79, a belligerent genius who alienated his best friends while making visionary art in the western and war movie genres.

Monument Valley is known to cinephiles as "John Ford Country" because the great director made seven Western masterpieces there - "Stagecoach," "My Darling Clementine," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "The Searchers," "Sergeant Rutledge" and "Cheyenne Autumn." But he also used to great advantage another Utah location - Moab - when he ...

Posted on Sep 11, 2009 by Todd Dorman . My vacation continues. Here's a rerun from June, 5, 2008.

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN is one of my very favorite John Wayne movies, which I revisit on a regular basis.

Adventure always adds spice to a vacation. So two weeks ago we walked into Moab Adventure Center on Main Street in Moab, Utah.

In my film library reside more than 60 John Wayne DVDs. Certainly not the majority of his 250 films; but, the best, in my opinion.

This son of Academy Award-winning actor Victor McLaglen learned the craft of directing apprenticing with the likes of John Ford, Budd Boetticher and William A Wellman.

MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah -- From her perch inside a rickety hut facing the Mittens, two glove-shaped sandstone buttes that define one of America's most iconic vistas, Louise Rock has an ideal vantage point from which to monitor the comings and goings in one of the world's most dramatic landscapes.

When the late, great Oscar-winning character actor Ben Johnson was doing a round of interviews for a film some years ago, I approached him, introduced myself and said I was from Salt Lake City.

It occurs to me that it's been a long time since Mr. John Wayne has swaggered into this little corner of the paper.

After a day full of parades, picnics and fireworks, how better to wind down than with a great Independence Day movie? Here are a few July 4th favorites to help make it a Yankee Doodle Day! 1. 1776 - This is the 1972 made for the cinema version of the musical that tells the story of our founding fathers and the writing of the Declaration of ...

My heroes haven't always been cowboys. But one of them was certainly America's number one cowboy, perhaps America's number one patriot, and a fierce defender of its best values.

Whether they referred to him as their good friend "Dobe" or approached him with a more formal "Mr. Carey," friends and fans welcomed Harry Carey Jr.