Cheyenne Autumn

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

Cast

Richard Widmark

as Capt. Thomas Archer

Carroll Baker

as Deborah Wright

Karl Malden

as Capt. Wessels

Sal Mineo

as Red Shirt

Dolores del Río

as Spanish woman

Ricardo Montalban

as Little Wolf

Gilbert Roland

as Dull Knife

Arthur Kennedy

as Doc Holliday

James Stewart

as Wyatt Earp

Edward G. Robinson

as Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz

Reviews

John Chard

A Cheyenne is a soldier from the first slap on his bottom. Cheyenne Autumn is directed by John Ford and is a "Hollywood" telling of the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1877/9, where the Northern Cheyenne, fed up with lack of food and poor facilities, tried to return to their one time home in the Nort...

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