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Synopsis: When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in their barren desert reserve, the starving Indians have taken more abuse than it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles journey back to their ancestral hunting grounds. US Cavalry Capt. Thomas Archer is charged with their retrieval, but during the hunt grows to respect their noble courage, and decides to help them.

Genre: Drama, History, Western

Director(s): John Ford

Actors: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo

Production: Warner Home Video

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:: 70%

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Year:: 1964
: 154 min
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Well, that doesn't give you
a personal license to kill Indians.
The job of this Army
is to keep the peace.
I understand, sir.
You do, huh?
Well, just make sure you understand...
...these Cheyenne broke no law
when they left the Agency.
And they won't
unless they cross the river.
So if you provoke trouble...
...Ill see that you lose
those shoulder straps...
...if I have to tear them off myself.
Understood?
Understood, sir.
Mr. Scott!
Sir?
I knew your father.
- Guide on!
- Sir.
Troop, halt!
Prepare to dismount!
Prepare to dismount!
Dismount!
- Sir!
- Yes.
Are you going to let them jump
the reservation right bef?
They haven't jumped the reservation.
They haven't crossed the river yet.
- Sir, I most respectfully object to...
- Put it in writing.
Join your troop, mister.
Sir.
No. No, thanks.
Spanish Woman, what's happening?
I think war.
Spanish Woman, speak to Dull Knife.
He'll listen to you.
I can do nothing.
Nothing.
- School teacher.
- Little Wolf, you promised...
Take the children, join the others.
Troop, halt!
Troop, halt!
- Plumtree.
- Sir?
I don't like the look of it.
Take a look up that canyon.
- Yes, sir.
- Jones, you cover him.
Jones!
Name's Smith, sir.
Oh, well, go on up with him. Go on!
- All right?
- Yes, sir.
But that canyon there
is plumb full of Indians.
- On ride into line! Yo!
- Hey, Smitty, wait a minute.
On ride into line! Yo!
You've got a lot to explain
to a court martial, Archer.
Sergeant...
Cannon's ready?
Forward on the double!
Cannon forward on the double!
Prepare to dismount!
- Prepare to dismount!
- Dismount!
Now!
Motion!
All soldiers to the rear!
All soldiers to the rear!
Stop!
- Major, I've got to tell you...
- Go back to your troop.
...the majority of those people
are women and children!
- Maybe 50 or 60 warriors.
- Archer, you're under arrest.
Number one gun, fire!
Number two gun, fire!
Fire number one.
Fire.
Cease firing!
Where's the major?
- Is he?
- Yes, sir.
They're angry because my son fired
the first shot.
Does it ever matter
who fires the first shot?
Those dirty, murdering...
- The major's dead, sir.
- Pick up the horses.
- I said, the major's dead, sir!
- Shut up!
Aren't you gonna give them a?
Plumtree, Brown,
get the horses off the wagons.
- Yes, sir.
- Yo.
- Name's Smith, sir.
- All right, get to work!
My son says,
"The soldiers do not follow."
Dull Knife, you know the soldiers
will have to follow us.
Have you thought what will happen
to your wife and son?
There will be war.
- Little Wolf.
- These are my wives.
I pray the young one
will give me sons.
But I want them to be born where I

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James R. Webb

James R. Webb (October 4, 1909 – September 27, 1974) was an American writer. He won an Academy Award in 1963 for How the West Was Won.Webb was born in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Stanford University in 1930. During the 1930s he worked both as a screenwriter and a fiction writer for a number of national magazines, including Collier's Weekly, Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post. Webb was commissioned an army officer in June 1942 and became a personal aide to General Lloyd R. Fredendall who was commander of the II Corps (United States). Webb accompanied Fredendall to England in October 1942 and participated in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942 when the Second Corps captured the city of Oran. The Second Corps then attacked eastward into Tunisia. In February 1943 the German army launched a counterattack at Kasserine Pass which repulsed the Second Corps and nearly broke through the Allied lines. The Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower relieved Fredendall of command in March 1943 and sent him back to the United States where he became deputy commander of the Second United States Army at Memphis, Tennessee. Webb returned to the United States with Fredendall and later served in the European Theater. Webb left the Army after the war and returned to Hollywood, California, where he continued his work as a screenwriter. He died on September 27, 1974, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery. more…

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