Cheyenne Autumn
Screening on Film
Directed by John Ford.
With Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Delores Del Rio.
US, 1964, 35mm, color, 145 min.
With Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Delores Del Rio.
US, 1964, 35mm, color, 145 min.
John Ford’s last western, and last trek through Monument Valley, is a sprawling, uneven, though entertaining curio, and sometimes most embarrassing where it tries to be most politically correct, making amends for Ford’s xenophobic treatment of Native Americans in early films. This one, based on Mari Sandoz’s novel, tells of the displacement of the Cheyenne tribe, their tragic forced march, from the Cheyenne perspective. Too bad that so many Cheyennes are played by an all-star cast of Hollywood actors.
