Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn
by John Ford

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Actor: Carroll Baker, Dolores del Rio, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Sal Mineo
Director: John Ford
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 156 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: Profound and hopeful movie
Summary: 5 Stars

The put-downs in another review prompted me to do my own. Cheyenne Autumn tells of the departure of the surviving Cheyennes from "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma (not yet a state at the time) to trek 1,500 miles to their old homeland -- the movie is beautiful visually, profound in its themes [you have to think about them yourself, this is not philosophical discourse -- but it is a MOVIE, after all] One reviewer noted as a negative the "grumpy mad elder cheif who dies passing cheifhood to the bad Indian". If "mad" here means "crazy," it would be totally off the truth, and if "mad" here means "angry" [more likely], the Chief's anger is well-grounded in the official inattention to his people's needs and the promises made -- "inattention" which had cost the lives of more than 2/3rds of his people by starvation and disease. The sub-themes of revenge and of marital brokenness add some depth to the theme of a people restored... The "Dodge City" sequence is a comic interlude, the reviewer who considers it irrelevant and distracting has his own point BUT the episode appears, per historical information, to be valid enough to make it part of this epic American history -- and its inclusion is validated from history, by the decade and a half earlier episode of another "drunken citizens volunteer army" -- the Paiute Indians under war-chief Numaga killed 70% of the Carson City force which attacked them

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Release Date: June 6th, 2006.

Cheyenne Autumn is a beautiful title to grace John Ford's final Western, an earnest attempt at long last to "tell the story from the Indians' point of view." The film has moments of grandeur, thanks especially to William H. Clothier's majestic Technicolor compositions--restored to their proper Panavision dimensions on the DVD release--and moments of graceful action thanks to that peerless horseman, Ben Johnson. In other respects, the film falls short of the occasion. Ford is unambiguously supportive of the Cheyennes' resolve to bolt their assigned reservation in the desert Southwest and trek north to their ancestral lands. By emphatic contrast, most of white society, the military, the bureaucracy, and the sensationalist press are portrayed as insensitive, foolish, or downright hateful. Unfortunately, the Cheyenne are nobly wooden and, apart from some Navajo extras, played by non-Indians: Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Sal Mineo, Victor Jory (who's pretty magnificent, actually), and Dolores Del Rio (who's breathtakingly beautiful as ever). As for point of view, it's sympathetic cavalry officer Richard Widmark and Quaker missionary Carroll Baker through whose eyes most of the epic narrative unfolds. A scabrous Dodge City interlude in midfilm, featuring James Stewart as a thoroughly disreputable Wyatt Earp (as opposed to the noble figure Henry Fonda played in My Darling Clementine), was chopped in half after the New York roadshow opening in 1964; it's all there on the DVD. Add to the list of sympathetic whites U.S. Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz, played by Edward G. Robinson, who replaced an ailing Spencer Tracy. --Richard T. Jameson

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