Cheyenne Autumn Trail

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 19 min
  • Premiere: 1964. January 1.

Structured as a complementary social and historical companion piece to John Ford's final western Cheyenne Autumn (1964), this documentary short intersperses clips from the big-screen epic with background information about the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–1879 and contrasts it with life on the Cheyenne reservation in 1964, as a tribal chief, a tribal beauty queen, and a tribal adolescent take a drive along the route of the 19th-century trek.

Discover

James Stewart

Narrator

Crew

Ross Lowell

Cinematography

Directing

Ronald Saland

Director

Writing

Burt Sloane

Writer

Crew

Ross Lowell

Cinematography

Directing

Ronald Saland

Director

Writing

Burt Sloane

Writer