Cheyenne Autumn (DVD)

Description: Genre: War & Western - Western / Theatrical Release: 1964 / Director: John Ford / Actors: Richard Widmark, Carroll ... more

Cheyenne Autumn (DVD) ... Baker ... / DVD released 13 February, 2007 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Newest Review: ... of the Duke (Jean-Luc Godard claimed to have wept in the last five minutes of 'The Searchers', when John Wayne's ... more

... Ethan Edwards abandons his pathogical hatred of the Indians), this more open apology to marginalised Indians in a depiction of the poor treatment of the Cheyenne indians doesn't really work. Both this, and Ford's film about blacks in the west, Sergeant Rutledge, are beautifully shot and well-acted, but they're fundamentally white films, pleading for minorities because times have changed and they know they ought to, rather than because suddenly Ford had converted to civil rights. ...more

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	Cheyenne Autumn [DVD] [1964] [Region 1] [USImport] [NTSC] Release Date: 2007 - 02 - 13, Last Update 05.01.2010 05:54	£ 7.74

Cheyenne Autumn [DVD] [1964] [Region 1] [USImport] [NTSC]
Release Date: 2007 - 02 - 13,

Last Update 05.01.2010 05:54

£ 7.74

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Cheyenne Autumn (DVD): Searching for an apology (130 words)
by - written on 23/07/00 (68 readings)
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Largely unsatisfactory, this John Ford Western shows the old ways faltering. While previous films could explore a certain level of racism in the gung-ho characterisation of the Duke (Jean-Luc Godard claimed to have wept in the last five minutes of 'The Searchers', when John Wayne's Ethan Edwards abandons his pathogical hatred of the Indians), this more open apology to marginalised Indians in a depiction of the poor treatment of the Cheyenne indians doesn't really work. Both this, and Ford's film about blacks in the west, Sergeant Rutledge, are beautifully shot and well-acted, but they're fundamentally white films, pleading for minorities ... Read the complete review

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