CHEYENNE AUTUMN

Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart

Warner Bros.; Directed by John Ford

Not Rated; 159 minutes; 1964

This frontier epic opens in 1887 with the remnants of the Cheyenne Nation waiting for a meeting with government representatives on a wretched Oklahoma reservation. When the meeting doesn’t take place, the Cheyennes migrate back to their homeland in Wyoming with government officials in tow.