Richard Widmark
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Cheyenne Autumn. Summaries. 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.
YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 829. Beautifully restored to its original length with footage not seen in two decades, John Ford's last Western masterpiece chronicles 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 the long trek back to their distant...
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Synopsis. In the 1870's, the Cheyenne Indians are taken from their Wyoming homelands and moved to a barren Oklahoma reservation. After a year of waiting for Federal aid that never arrives, the original band of 1,000 has been reduced by disease and starvation to a mere 286.
Jul 8, 2014 · 208. 38K views 9 years ago. This last Western from director John Ford ranks as one of his most ambitious and moving works. Ford outfits his Trail-of-Tears-like saga with a strong cast, stunning...
Jan 1, 2001 · In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.
Dec 12, 2012 · Cheyenne Autumn. By The New Yorker. December 12, 2012. The rueful, elegiac grandeur of John Ford’s final Western, from 1964, arises from a true story of a quasi-Biblical power, a sort of...
