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Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 American epic Western film starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson. It tells the story of a factual event, the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–79, told in "Hollywood style" using a great deal of artistic license.
Cheyenne Autumn: Directed by John Ford. With Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo. The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
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- Drama, History, Western
- John Ford
- 1964-12-22
Jan 18, 2023 · When the elder Cheyenne chief dies, the task of leading the 1,200-mile journey back to Wyoming falls to Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalbon) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland). They’ve always seen eye-to-eye, until now. Dull Knifte’s son Red Shirt (Sal Mineo) wants Little Wolf’s youngest wife for his own.
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Beautifully restored to its original length with footage not seen in two decades, John Ford's last Western masterpiece chronicles the struggle by Cheyenne Indians to migrate homeward across the...
Large-scale frontier epic telling the true story of a band of Cheyenne Indians who, starved nearly to extinction on an inhospitable reservation, embark on...
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- Richard Widmark
- John Ford
- Western
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) -- (Movie Clip) As A Christian Gentleman Wyatt Earp (James Stewart) and Doc Holliday (Arthur Kennedy) are Western bons vivants inconvenienced by the Indian uprising, in a side-plot in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn, 1964.
When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in their barren desert reserve, the starving Indians have taken more abuse than it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles journey back to their ancestral hunting grounds.
