Ko tana kiriata anake i oti i taua tau ko te wahanga tuarua o tana Cavalry Trilogy, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (Argosy / RKO, 1949), ko John Wayne me Joanne Dru, me Victor McLaglen, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Mildred Natwick me Harry Carey Jr. I kiriata ano i te waahi i Monument Valley, i tino whakamoemitihia mo tana kiriata Technicolor whakamiharo (tae atu ki te whakaaturanga hoiho rongonui i kiriata i mua o te tupuhi e haere mai ana); i riro i a Winton Hoch te Tohu Academy 1950 mo te Whakaata Ataata Pai rawa atu
He nui te mahi a te kiriata i tōna putanga tuatahi, neke atu i te $5 miriona i te ao katoa. Ko John Wayne, 41 i taua wa, i tino whakamoemiti hoki mo tana mahi hei Kapene Nathan Brittles 60-tau te pakeke.