Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

Director: John Ford Cast: Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark
, Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker
, Karl Malden
Karl Malden
, Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo
John Ford
Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

Director: John Ford Cast: Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark
, Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker
, Karl Malden
Karl Malden
, Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo
John Ford

DVD (Remastered / Wide Screen / Restored)

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Overview

John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, anyway). Set in 1887, the film recounts the defiant migration of 300 Cheyennes from their reservation in Oklahoma territory to their original home in Wyoming. They have done this at the behest of chiefs Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalban) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland), peaceful souls who have been driven to desperate measures because the US government has ignored their pleas for food and shelter. Since the Cheyennes' trek is in defiance of their treaty, Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark), who agrees with the Indians in principle, reluctantly leads his troops in pursuit of the tribe. While there was never any intention to shed blood, the white press finds it politically expedient to distort the Cheyennes' action into a declaration of war. Thanks to the cruelties of such chauvinistic whites as Captain Oscar Wessels (Karl Malden), the Cheyennes are forced to defend themselves--and whenever Indians take arms against whites in the 1880s, it's usually misrepresented as a massacre. Only the intervention of US secretary of the interior Carl Schurz (Edward G. Robinson) prevents the hostilities from erupting into wholesale bloodshed. Based on a novel by Mari Sandoz, Cheyenne Autumn is a cinematic elegy--not only for the beleaguered Cheyennes, but for John Ford's fifty years in pictures. It is weakest when arbitrarily throwing in a wearisome romance between Richard Widmark and pacifistic schoolmarm Carroll Baker, who out of sympathy for the Indians has joined them in their 1500-mile westward journey. When the Warner Bros. people decided that the film ran too long, they chopped out the wholly unnecessary but very funny episode involving a poker-obsessed Wyatt Earp (James Stewart). Contrary to popular belief, this episode was included in the earliest non-roadshow prints of Cheyenne Autumn; the scene was excised only when the film went into its second and third runs in 1966 (it has since been restored).

Product Details

Release Date: 02/13/2007
UPC: 0012569398078
Original Release: 1964
Rating: NR
Source: STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 2:36:00
Sales rank: 15,297

Special Features

Closed Caption;New digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements; Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by Joseph McBride, author of Searching For John Ford: A Life; Vintage featurette Cehyenne Autumn Trail; Theatrical trailer; Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Feature Film Only)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Richard Widmark Capt. Thomas Archer
Carroll Baker Deborah Wright
Karl Malden Capt. Wessels
Sal Mineo Red Shirt
James Stewart Wyatt Earp
Edward G. Robinson Carl Schurz,Actor
Ricardo Montalban Little Wolf
Gilbert Roland Dull Knife
Arthur Kennedy Doc Holliday
Patrick Wayne 2nd Lt. Scott
Elizabeth Allen Miss Guinevere Plantagenet
John Carradine Major Jeff Blair
Victor Jory Tall Tree
Judson Pratt Mayor Dog Kelly
Mike Mazurki 1st Sgt. Stanislaus Wichowsky
Ken Curtis Joe
George O'Brien Major Braden
George Fisher Trail Boss
Carmen D'Antonio Pawnee Woman
Walter Baldwin Deborah's Uncle,Jeremy Wright
Nancy Hsueh Little Bird
Chuck Roberson Trail Hand
Moonbeam Running Deer
Many Muleson Medicine Man
John Qualen Svenson
Sean McClory Dr. O'Carberry
John McKee Trooper,Trooper
Walter Reed Lt. Peterson
James Flavin Sergeant of the Guard
Stephanie Epper Entertainer,Entertainer
Mary Statler Entertainer
Donna Hall Entertainer
Ben Johnson Trooper Plumtree
Elena Altieri Duchess De Castro
Harry Carey Jr. Trooper Smith
Bing Russell Telegrapher
Paul Campbell Felipe
Major Sam Harris Townsman
Denver Pyle Sen. Henry
Nada Fiorelli Isabelle
Carleton Young Secretary to Schurz
Chuck Hayward Trooper
William Henry Infantry Captain
George Higgins Martinez
Louise Montana Woman
Dan Borzage Trooper,Trooper
Dan Carr Trooper
Duncan Lamont The Viceroy
James O'Hara Trooper
Anna Magnani Camilla
David Humphreys Miller Trooper
Ted Mapes Trooper
Charles Seel Newspaper Publisher
Philo McCullough Man
Riccardo Rioli Ramon
Dolores Del Río Spanish woman
Odoardo Spadaro Don Antonio
Ralph Truman Duke De Castro
Willis Bouchey Colonel at Victory Cave,Colonel
Rudy Bowman Townsman
Lee Bradley Cheyenne
Alex North Composer

Technical Credits
John Ford Director,Producer
Ginette Doynel Screenwriter
Giulio Macchi Screenwriter
Jack Kirkland Screenwriter
Renzo Avanzo Screenwriter
James R. Webb Screenwriter,Special Effects
Bernard Smith Producer
Howard Fast Screenwriter
Mari Sandoz Screenwriter
Francis Stahl Sound Effects
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