Cheyenne Autumn Movie Review : Cheyenne Autumn 1964 Directed By John Ford Reviews Film Cast Letterboxd

Like the audience for todays violent thrillers and urban warfare pictures it wanted action with clear cut bad guys.

Autumn equinox meaning in hindi. The scenery in cheyenne autumn might even top the scenery in shane 1953. Cheyenne autumn is a 1964 american epic western film starring richard widmark carroll baker james stewart and edward g. It tells the story of a factual event the northern cheyenne exodus of 187879 told in hollywood style using a great deal of artistic license.

Cheyenne autumn 1964 cheyenne autumn. 355 tony mastroianni cleveland press. It is ultimately the directors picture and represents fords attitude toward the native american coming around full circle.

Government promises head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation. Full review original score. Revisionist westerns including fords own cheyenne autumn in 1964 took a more enlightened view of native americans but the western audience didnt want moral complexity.

Red shirt is killed and little wolf having broken his vow never to kill another cheyenne goes into self imposed exile. The scenery is spectacular even better than in such movies as the searchers 1956 and bend of the river 1952 to name a couple of movies that come to mind. That was their true tragedy they were unwanted in what the whites wanted to make of the west and so they were placed and disposed of thereby suffering the usual superfluous maladies of physical and moral debilitation here they.

No single actor however stands out in cheyenne autumn. John fords final western film cheyenne autumn 1964 has not received the critical or popular reappraisal that many of his other films were to achieve. Government and misrepresented by many of the directors own films.

John ford dealt with one of the long lasting indian tragedies in his cheyenne autumn the wasting away of a tribe in an uncongenial pen called a reservation and its efforts to take matters into its own hands indians to use a modern term had become redundant. Watch movie clips view trailer read the full synopsis. Cheyenne autumn is a strong film grandly directed and expertly played by a large cast.

The movie was filmed in monument valley. The cheyenne tired of broken us. As peace is restored archer and deborah decide to remain with the indians who have survived the historic ordeal.