John Wayne is handsome, stern and tough playing a Calvary Officer in Civil War times who is reunited with his estranged wife and son, the latter a new recruit in his own father's platoon! Emotional, oft-times amusing outdoor yarn with the occasional Apache Indian attack, family strife, and wonderful, take-a-deep-breath outdoor cinematography. John Ford-directed film isn't a bracing, memorable western in the classic sense, though it does have sentiment and good cheer, and of course the lovely Maureen O'Hara playing wife to the Duke (their chemistry is under the restraints of the script, but manages to glimmer through anyway). **1/2 from ****
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