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Name: Cheyenne Autumn
Released: 1964-10-3
Cast: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban

Cheyenne Autumn

PG
2h 28m
1964

60%

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Four-time Academy Award-winner John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man) directs an epic frontier film--Cheyenne Autumn. Imprisoned on a squalid reservation in Oklahoma, the last of the Cheyenne Indians escape and head for their old homelands in Wyoming, accompanied by Quaker missionary Deborah Wright (Carroll Baker). Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark) is ordered to lead his cavalry unit in pursuit--despite his sympathy for the Cheyenne and his love for Deborah. The inevitable clash between soldiers and Indians ends in a crushing defeat for Archer's men but brings even more troops against the outnumbered Indians. Hollywood luminaries James Stewart, Karl Malden and Edward G. Robinson add their star power to this profound and passionate Western.

Director:

John Ford

Producer:

Bernard Smith

Writer:

James R. Webb

Cast:

Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban, Dolores Del Rio, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Kennedy, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

60%

Reviews

New York Daily News

Kate Cameron

James R. Webb's screenplay, Ford's direction and the splendid acting of the cast make this an impressive film.

A melancholy epic which [John Ford] seems to have directed under the misapprehension that it was an action comedy.

Cheyenne Autumn is a blockbuster of a Western-but unfortunately also a bust.

It is one of those incredible, intensely cinematic journeys, where everything from panoramic to infinitesimal, from fording a river to creeping thorough undergrowth is visually exciting and where excitement and sympathy go together.

A sort of frontier Exodus that's filmed with a majestic passion for the wild lands and for its indigenous dwellers.

June 22, 2017

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