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.
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| 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 | |
| James Stewart | ... | Wyatt Earp | |
| Edward G. Robinson | ... | Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz | |
| Patrick Wayne | ... | 2nd Lt. Scott | |
| Elizabeth Allen | ... | Guinevere Plantagenet | |
| John Carradine | ... | Major Jeff Blair | |
| Victor Jory | ... | Tall Tree | |
| Mike Mazurki | ... | Senior First Sergeant | |
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When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in their barren desert reserve, the starving Indians have taken more abuse than it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles journey back to their ancestral hunting grounds. US Cavalry Capt. Thomas Archer is charged with their retrieval, but during the hunt grows to respect their noble courage, and decides to help them. Written by KGF Vissers
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15 October 1964 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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$4,200,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Capt. Thomas Archer: Come on, Wichowski. You fought Indians before!
Sr. First Sergeant: I fought Indians who wanted to fight me, not just some poor blanket-heads trying to go home!
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Played on the banjo during the saloon
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In the scenes in the fort. The soldiers are seen carrying modern Coleman lanterns. See more »Goofs
The language used by the Cheyenne in this movie is not Cheyenne. It is Navajo. Cheyenne is an Algonquian language, whereas Navajo is Athabaskan (Na Dene), and they do not sound even remotely similar. This is explainable, however, by the fact that this film was shot on the Navajo Nation. See more »Quotes
Sr. First Sergeant: [a Cossack] kills Poles just because they're Poles. Like we're trying to kill Indians just because they're Indians.Capt. Thomas Archer: Come on, Wichowski. You fought Indians before!
Sr. First Sergeant: I fought Indians who wanted to fight me, not just some poor blanket-heads trying to go home!
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Many television prints run 145 minutes, and omit the scene with James Stewart as Wyatt Earp. The video release is the full 154-minute version. See more »Soundtracks
The Yellow Rose of Texas(uncredited)
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This film is the perfect counterpoint to early John Ford films such as Stagecoach. In Stagecoach every indian was painted as a bloodthirsty savage, out to menace all of the civilized folk. Cheyenne Autumn, on the other hand is a very revealing film... behind it all you can almost feel John Ford questioning himself and his previous views on American history. In this film it is the US soldiers who are painted as the brutal savages, and the indians are the civilized folk. It's amazing to see Ford, who practically built his career glorifying the chivalry of the western hero, do a complete 360 to end up de-glorifying it. I have the feeling that this was a very personal film for Ford and in that light it really does make him one of the great auteurs of cinema.