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.
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Beautifully restored to its original length with footage not seen in two decades, John Ford's last Western masterpiece chronicles the struggle by Cheyenne Indians to migrate homeward across the Great Plains in 1878. Featuring an all-star cast including Richard Widmark and Jimmy Stewart.
John Ford directs this epic western about a mass migration of the Cheyenne tribe from their reservation in Oklahoma to their original lands in Wyoming, with Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Montalban and Gilbert Roland making up the ensemble cast.