Cheyenne Autumn [VHS]

Cheyenne Autumn [VHS]
by John Ford

Cheyenne Autumn [VHS]

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Actor: Carroll Baker, Dolores del Rio, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Sal Mineo
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: William H. Clothier
Producer: John Ford
Editor: David Hawkins
Producer: Bernard Smith
Writer: Howard Fast
Writer: James R. Webb
Writer: Mari Sandoz
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 154 minutes
Release Date: 1994-07-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Cheyenne Autumn [VHS]

Movie Review: Probably a bit too long... but an apology is always a good thing.
Summary: 4 Stars

Do not apologize it's a sign of weakness!... If you know your John Ford you know it is a recurrent line in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON...
Well, CHEYENNE AUTUMN can be considered Ford's apology for the way he portrayed the plains Indians all through his filmography... a late film, a bit sour and sarcastic (as TWO RODE TOGETHER) it is mainly remembered by the anthological middle scene on the film where Jimmy Stewart shines as ever...
The cast is OK... great actors... but the script is a bit too long (that is why minus one star).
Ford is still my favorite director western or not.

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Get also TWO RODE TOGETHER and SERGEANT RUTLEDGE... less known films maybe but the work of a solid director.

Movie Review: LAST WESTERN PORTRAIT FROM A MASTER
Summary: 5 Stars

This was the last Western film done by John Ford, who was considered by many to be the genre's greatest director. Gems like "The Iron Horse", "Stagecoach", "My Darling Clementine", "The Searchers" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" would certainly validate that consensus. Perhaps it wasn't the West of Frederick Remington or Charles Russell, but Mr. Ford's results are just as vivid. As is his custom, Mr. Ford rewards with viewer with beautiful visuals and stalwart performances from a star-studded cast. A fine tribute to the West of America ... and of John Ford. Let this one find a place in your DVD collection.

Movie Review: No Problems
Summary: 4 Stars

Had no problems at all . Very fast service. Will buy from again.

Movie Review: Cheeze and crackers
Summary: 1 Stars

Well, there's good cheese and there's bad cheese--this was Cheeze Whiz. Sitting through it was an ordeal. The intent may have been good--i.e., John Ford's "apology" to the Indians--but other than that it was one bad Hollywood cliche after another. Richard Widmark, who can't act to save his life, plays a sort of prototype Oskar Schindler who risks his army career to go to bat for the Indians. Karl Malden plays a Prussian authoritarian sociopath, an easy villain. The Cheyenne themselves might have been humanized here if their leaders hadn't been played by stodgy, middle-aged white men with pointy noses and mall bangs. Ricardo Montalban is in mediocre form as usual, and Sal Mineo is, also as usual, an Italian-American version of Elvis. The only Indians with any dignity are the extras, who appear to be real Indians but probably not Cheyenne. And on top of everything else, this had to end as a love story. Pass the barf bag, please.

Movie Review: Profound and hopeful movie
Summary: 5 Stars

The put-downs in another review prompted me to do my own. Cheyenne Autumn tells of the departure of the surviving Cheyennes from "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma (not yet a state at the time) to trek 1,500 miles to their old homeland -- the movie is beautiful visually, profound in its themes [you have to think about them yourself, this is not philosophical discourse -- but it is a MOVIE, after all] One reviewer noted as a negative the "grumpy mad elder cheif who dies passing cheifhood to the bad Indian". If "mad" here means "crazy," it would be totally off the truth, and if "mad" here means "angry" [more likely], the Chief's anger is well-grounded in the official inattention to his people's needs and the promises made -- "inattention" which had cost the lives of more than 2/3rds of his people by starvation and disease. The sub-themes of revenge and of marital brokenness add some depth to the theme of a people restored... The "Dodge City" sequence is a comic interlude, the reviewer who considers it irrelevant and distracting has his own point BUT the episode appears, per historical information, to be valid enough to make it part of this epic American history -- and its inclusion is validated from history, by the decade and a half earlier episode of another "drunken citizens volunteer army" -- the Paiute Indians under war-chief Numaga killed 70% of the Carson City force which attacked them

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Summary of Cheyenne Autumn [VHS]

Cheyenne Autumn is a beautiful title to grace John Ford's final Western, but the film falls short of the occasion. The great director's ambition to tell the story, for once, from the Indians' point of view is only partially fulfilled. He's unambiguously sympathetic to the Cheyennes' resolve to bolt the reservation and trek back to their ancestral lands, while most of white society, the military, the bureaucracy, and the sensationalist press come off as insensitive, foolish, or downright hateful. However, the Cheyenne are nobly wooden (and played by non-Indians), and it's sympathetic cavalry officer Richard Widmark and Quaker missionary Carroll Baker through whose eyes most of the epic narrative unfolds. The video release restores the entirety of the caustic Dodge City interlude (featuring James Stewart as a thoroughly disreputable Wyatt Earp)--truncated after the New York roadshow opening--but William H. Clothier's majestic Panavision compositions have yet to be letterboxed. --Richard T. Jameson

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