![]() ![]() Robinson), a former Civil War general who invokes the memory of his late friend Abraham Lincoln, and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday (James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy), a pair of jokers who conceal their principles and their wisdom with a poker face. Among the heroes are the Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz (Edward G. John Fords last Western masterpiece chronicles the struggle by Cheyenne Indians to migrate homeward across the Great Plains in 1878. A band of the Cheyenne Nation has been relocated from their homeland in Wyoming to a Cavalry-run camp in Oklahoma. Ford films Native American ways with devotion and respect while also maintaining deep admiration for the military, he sets its code of obedience under a higher morality and the authority of civilian government. Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 film directed by John Ford.Its an Epic Western telling the story of the 1878 incident usually known as the Northern Cheyenne Exodus. In 1878, when the promise went unkept, the surviving members of the ordeal defy the government and make the trek home, confronting the danger of mass slaughter by the Army-and one officer, Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark), puts his career on the line to save them, even as the Quaker schoolteacher he loves (Carroll Baker) leaves the Army outpost to travel with them. ![]() Ford’s ambitious attempt to craft a Western from the Native American point of view is based on the true story of the Cheyenne’s 1,500 mile march from their barren Oklahoma reservation to their native land in Yellowstone. It’s centered on a Cheyenne tribe that was forced to leave its ancestral homeland in the Northwest and relocated to the desert, under the watchful eye of the U.S. With Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart. Over-long, often clichéd and uneven (there are comic interludes complete with cameo performances), but still imbued with moments of true poetry, thanks largely to William Clothiers magnificent. ![]() The rueful, elegiac grandeur of John Ford’s final Western, from 1964, arises from a true story of a quasi-Biblical power, a sort of frontier Exodus that’s filmed with a majestic passion for the wild lands and for its indigenous dwellers. ![]()
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