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A sort of frontier Exodus that's filmed with a majestic passion for the wild lands and for its indigenous dwellers. Dec 17, 2012 | Full Review…
A sort of frontier Exodus that's filmed with a majestic passion for the wild lands and for its indigenous dwellers.
Richard Brody
Somewhere in the telling, the original premise of the Mari Sandoz novel is lost sight of in a wholesale insertion of extraneous incidents which bear little or no relation to the subject. Sep 4, 2007 | Full Review…
Somewhere in the telling, the original premise of the Mari Sandoz novel is lost sight of in a wholesale insertion of extraneous incidents which bear little or no relation to the subject.
Variety Staff
Over-long, often clichéd and uneven (there are comic interludes complete with cameo performances), but still imbued with moments of true poetry, thanks largely to William Clothier's magnificent Panavision landscapes. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Over-long, often clichéd and uneven (there are comic interludes complete with cameo performances), but still imbued with moments of true poetry, thanks largely to William Clothier's magnificent Panavision landscapes.
Geoff Andrew
Cheyenne Autumn is a strong film, grandly directed and expertly played by a large cast. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Cheyenne Autumn is a strong film, grandly directed and expertly played by a large cast.
Bosley Crowther
It is one of those incredible, intensely cinematic journeys, where everything from panoramic to infinitesimal, from fording a river to creeping thorough undergrowth is visually exciting and where excitement and sympathy go together. Jul 19, 2018 | Full Review…
It is one of those incredible, intensely cinematic journeys, where everything from panoramic to infinitesimal, from fording a river to creeping thorough undergrowth is visually exciting and where excitement and sympathy go together.
Isabel Quigly
Aside from all this nonsense, it never loses its John Ford touch. Sep 4, 2008 | Full Review…
Aside from all this nonsense, it never loses its John Ford touch.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Flawed on several levels, Ford's perception of a proud people seen through a white man's eyes is ultimately a highly compelling and deeply personal apologia. Sep 4, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Flawed on several levels, Ford's perception of a proud people seen through a white man's eyes is ultimately a highly compelling and deeply personal apologia.
The film is often described as Ford's apology to the Indians for their stereotypical portrayal in previous films, but though they are treated more sympathetically, they still emerge as members (or symbols) of a mass rather than flesh and blood individuals Aug 28, 2006 | Rating: B | Full Review…
The film is often described as Ford's apology to the Indians for their stereotypical portrayal in previous films, but though they are treated more sympathetically, they still emerge as members (or symbols) of a mass rather than flesh and blood individuals
Emanuel Levy
A big mess. Jan 1, 2006 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
A big mess.
Dennis Schwartz
Cheyenne Autumn is a near miss, a motion picture with good intentions. It achieves most of them but then spoils everything by giving in to commercial cliches. Nov 20, 2003 | Full Review…
Cheyenne Autumn is a near miss, a motion picture with good intentions. It achieves most of them but then spoils everything by giving in to commercial cliches.
Tony Mastroianni
Ford's compositions (he was 69 at the time) are as noble as ever, but a feeling of fatigue hangs over the whole enterprise. May 24, 2003 | Full Review…
Ford's compositions (he was 69 at the time) are as noble as ever, but a feeling of fatigue hangs over the whole enterprise.
Film4 Staff
In 1878 a band of Cheyenne, tired of the conditions that they were enduring, broke the reservation and started north to their native homelands in Wyoming. They were led by their three chiefs played by Victor Jory, Ricardo Montalban, and Gilbert Roland. Jory dies along the way. The army goes after them and Captain Richard Widmark takes command after Major George O'Brien is killed. Widmark has another reason for pursuit. It seems as though school teacher Carroll Baker is with the fleeing Cheyenne. Baker gives poignancy to her portrayal of a young Quaker woman, who considers it her Christian duty to look after the orphan children of the Cheyenne. Richard Widmark and Edward G. Robinson enact Americans with a conscience, none too happy with the assignments required by their government and reluctantly lead his troops in pursuit of the tribe. Envision a journey on foot against hostile terrain and enemy soldiers, and this will make anyone appreciate just what these people did to maintain their honor and freedom. However the story is bizarrely interrupted by a lengthy James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy as Wyatt Earp and and Doc Holliday scene in the middle of the film that is not remotely connected to the main theme and left me just a little confused.
Super Reviewer
Intriguing.
"A dream is a dead end disguised as an escape." Very beautiful, very flawed. 1,500 mile epic journey never seems to leave Monument Valley. Was John Ford saying something or was he just lazy?
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