Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 31m

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 148 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

It tells the story of the Northern Cheyenne tribe's forced journey back to their homeland in 1878. The film follows their struggle against the U.S. government and the hardships they endure.

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What happens

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 with artistic license. The film was the last Western directed by John Ford, who proclaimed it an elegy for the Native Americans who had been abused by the U.S. government and misrepresented in numerous of his own films. With a budget of more than $4 million, the film was relatively unsuccessful at the box office and failed to earn a profit for Warner Bros. Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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