Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Ford
Screenplay by	James R. Webb
Based on	Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
Produced by	Bernard Smith
Starring	Richard Widmark Carroll Baker Karl Malden Sal Mineo Dolores del Río Ricardo Montalbán Gilbert Roland Arthur Kennedy James Stewart Edward G. Robinson
Cinematography	William Clothier
Edited by	Otho Lovering
Music by	Alex North
Production company	John Ford–Bernard Smith Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	October 3, 1964 (1964-10-03)
Running time	154 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3.5 million(US/Canada rentals)[1]

Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 American epic Western film starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson. It tells the story of a factual event, the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–79, told with artistic license. The film was the last Western directed by John Ford, who proclaimed it an elegy for the Native Americans who had been abused by the U.S. government and misrepresented in numerous of his own films. With a budget of more than $4 million, the film was relatively unsuccessful at the box office and failed to earn a profit for Warner Bros.^[2]