Cheyenne Autumn 1964

Critics score:
70 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Cheyenne Autumn is a strong film, grandly directed and expertly played by a large cast. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: A sort of frontier Exodus that's filmed with a majestic passion for the wild lands and for its indigenous dwellers. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Over-long, often cliched 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. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: 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. Read more