Cheyenne Autumn | |
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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. |
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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]