Which 1964 film was John Ford's final Western?

John Ford’s final Western was *Cheyenne Autumn*, released in 1964.

The film dramatizes the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–79, when Cheyenne people left their assigned reservation in Indian Territory and attempted to return to their homeland in the North. Richard Widmark stars, with Carroll Baker, Sal Mineo, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson also appearing. Ford presented the film as an elegy for Native Americans who had been mistreated by the United States government and misrepresented in some earlier Westerns.

Ford had made several landmark Westerns in Monument Valley, including *Stagecoach*, *My Darling Clementine*, *The Searchers*, and *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance*. *Cheyenne Autumn* revisited that familiar landscape while taking a more openly critical view of government policy.

The film is sometimes confused with *Two Rode Together* or *Wagon Master*, both Ford Westerns from earlier periods. Neither was his last: *Cheyenne Autumn* was his final Western feature, although Ford directed later non-Western work.