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Director:
Writers:
Mari Sandoz (novel)
James R. Webb (screenplay)
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Release Date:
3 October 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
LAND-GRABBING DOLLAR PATRIOTS! more
Plot:
When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in their barren desert reserve... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination more
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(3 articles)
DVD Spotlight: 10/7.
 (From GreenCine. 7 October 2008, 2:49 PM, PDT)

Actor Widmark Dies
 (From WENN. 26 March 2008, 12:11 PM, PDT)

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Spectacular scenery more (39 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Richard Widmark ... Capt. Thomas Archer

Carroll Baker ... Deborah Wright

Karl Malden ... Capt. Wessels

Sal Mineo ... Red Shirt

Dolores del Rio ... Spanish Woman (as Dolores Del Rio)

Ricardo Montalban ... Little Wolf
Gilbert Roland ... Dull Knife
Arthur Kennedy ... Doc Holliday
Patrick Wayne ... Second Lieut. Scott
Elizabeth Allen ... Miss Plantagenet
John Carradine ... Jeff Blair
Victor Jory ... Tall Tree
Mike Mazurki ... Sr. First Sergeant
George O'Brien ... Major Braden
Sean McClory ... Dr. O'Carberry
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
The Long Flight (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
154 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (RCA Sound System) (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | West Germany:12 | USA:Approved (certificate #20635) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | Argentina:13 | UK:U

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Trivia:
John Ford would not allow Sal Mineo to speak any English dialog in the movie due to the actor's Bronx accent. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: The lanterns held by army guards outside the warehouse where the Indians were being kept after surrendering were "Coleman" lanterns, first produced in 1914. more
Quotes:
Maj. Braden: Miss Wright, my responsibility to the Indians is only to guard them. When you have reached my age, you will have realized that it pays to stick to your own knitting. That's exactly what I intend to do! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Wages of Sin (2003) (V) more

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8 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Spectacular scenery, 21 January 2007
3/10
Author: jef-32 from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The scenery is spectacular and the photography does it true justice. You would have to be in Monument Valley to see it any better. The stunning vistas captured by Ford were the hi-light of the film from my perspective. Character development in the movie is minimal so they become less believable as the movie continues. The editing is really awful. Half-way through the movie the screen jumps from a view of the Cheyennes crossing a river to a poker game in which three new characters are introduced to the viewers. The entire poker game sequence could have been omitted. I thought that the movie was much too long, the script and the acting was wooden and the hardship endured by the remaining members of the Cheyenne tribe on their desperate trek to their home was underplayed. This movie glamorized a terrible event in the history of the U.S.A.

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